RE: Elton John

[len bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams)

>>Del Allen writes:

>>I agree, bad mouthing other performers because they are not Kate, is bad 
>>mouthing Kate.

>    ...particulary as Kate considers Elton a major influence. Frankly,
>it just looks ignorant. 

I must have missed this part.  Did someone say Elton is bad because 
Elton isn't Kate???  That's weird on the face of it. 

John and I had a discussion with Wendy tossing in agreement that 
rewriting candle in the wind for Diana Spencer's funeral felt a 
bit contrived.  I missed the rest of it.  OTH, it seems a lot of 
people, including her sons, were emotionally affected by it so 
it had the right effect and in the eulogy mantra, that is 
what is important.  

Elton is a great and talented cat, but remember he has bragged 
for years that if he took longer than 30 minutes to write a 
song, he sent it to the O file.  Thirty minutes doesn't seem 
too much to ask for the late Princess of Wales.  I won't enjoy the 
remake and I won't buy it because everytime it opens, he'll 
sing "england's rose" and I'll hear "norma jean".  it was 
and is, imho, a cognitively dissonant work.

It's also history, so on with the show.

BTW:  found and read the Q review of the HOL remake.  Worth 
having for the photo of Kate;  otherwise, nyet.

len