Re: Candle in the Wind rewrite

[Don <fastslow@idt.net>]

At 5:59 PM -0700 9-17-97, jOHN Light wrote:
>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.

Huh?

I'm pretty sure BT sends lyrics to EJ without having heard a note. Lots of
lyricists do this. In fact, I'd bet that's the norm.

- Don