Diana concert: cheery or cheesy?
I just received this email: Greetings — we’re doing a story about the Diana Concert and would love to you use your photo in our image gallery. To approve or deny the request, just click on the link below. You’ll receive full credit next to your photo, of course.
I then went on to read this article.
Why would anyone want to use a picture that I took off the TV to illustrate an article???
Anyway, some parts of the televised concert were great, ie Duran Duran, Kanye (big medley) & Diddy, some were OK - Elton, Joss Stone, Nelly Furtado, some weird - the National Ballet, some awful - Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Status Quo. At least you could say there was something for everyone! Not sure what Princess Diana would have thought about that “ho-bag” Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas (not Fergie her former sister-in-law). There were only a couple of “appropriate for the occasion” songs. Diddy was the only one to really make a big thing about the concert being for Diana in his performance by changing the lyrics of I’ll be Missing You to include lots of cheesy Diana mentions (”so beautiful”, “so royal”). It was also fun to see the young royals let loose - except Prince Harry, who seemed not to want to “put his hands in the air and wave them like he just don’t care”, he knew 500 million people were watching him.