Re: Candle in the Wind rewrite

[jOHN Light <Light@akaMail.com>]

At 11:43 AM +0100 9/15/97, Neil Calton wrote:
>There was an intersting item on the local radio this morning
>regarding the Candle in the Wind rewrite. The reporter claimed
>(and he may have been reading this from a newspaper) that Elton
>John had phoned Bernie Taupin and asked him to write "something
>like" Candle in the Wind as a tribute to Diana Princess of Wales.
>However, as the result of a poor mobile phone connection Bernie
>Taupin misunderstood and instead of writing a new song as Elton
>wanted, actually rewrote the lyrics to Candle in the Wind.
>
>When he phoned Elton back some time later and read him the new lyrics
>then Elton decided that they worked so well that they would keep that
>version rather than do a completely new song.
>
>I don't know whether all this is true but if so then it certainly answers
>some of the criticisms about changing the original song.

I doubt that this is true because Bernie writes the lyrics and I don't
think he could write lyrics to music he had never heard.

jOHN