10th anniversary of Diana's tragic death
10th anniversary of Diana's tragic death
There is to be a concert in London's Wembley Stadium on 1st July 2007, arranged by Princes William and Harry in honour of their mother Diana. When Leonard contributed to Charles' 'The Prince's Trust' some years ago he was pictured together with Diana and the other participants. And Charles has publicly praised Leonard's work. Therefore I feel it would be perfectly natural for Leonard to be included in the line-up at Wembley - especially if he was touring at the same time and could manage to include this venue on 1st July - which would have been Diana's 46th birthday. Elton John, who sang at Diana's funeral, will be there. I think Leonard should come along, too. There will probably be a limit of about 15 mintues, just a couple of songs - but the concert is expected to be screened 'live' on TV to a worldwide audience. Leonard need only read a poem - but he should definitely not be anywhere else on that day. It's no good him just sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring he has to call the palace himself or get Anjani or somebody to do it and fix it up because you have to push people if you want to get anywhere you can't just sit sedately around and expect them to call you because it's never going to happen why can't Jarkko ring them then? I know Leonard liked Diana he even mentioned her at the end of one of his songs - can't remember which one off-hand.
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.Hmmm.... And hmmm.... again.
Okay, I can see something ironically appropriate in Leonard being associated with someone undergoing the process of sanctification before our very eyes. (Does the first paragraph of Beautiful Losers need revising in the light of this?)
Plus we know that he's a deeply compassionate soul.
But does he really need to be associated with what many of us here - and elsewhere, I suspect - see as just one more act of collective recreational grief?
Sorry to be so negative and seemingly uncharitable, but having lived through the media-orchestrated hype at the time, I'm very sceptical about all this. It will sell merchandise and, no doubt, bolster a few sagging careers, but it's not 'really really real', is it?!
(Of couse, I'll be scouring eBay for tickets if he shows up!)
Okay, I can see something ironically appropriate in Leonard being associated with someone undergoing the process of sanctification before our very eyes. (Does the first paragraph of Beautiful Losers need revising in the light of this?)
Plus we know that he's a deeply compassionate soul.
But does he really need to be associated with what many of us here - and elsewhere, I suspect - see as just one more act of collective recreational grief?
Sorry to be so negative and seemingly uncharitable, but having lived through the media-orchestrated hype at the time, I'm very sceptical about all this. It will sell merchandise and, no doubt, bolster a few sagging careers, but it's not 'really really real', is it?!
(Of couse, I'll be scouring eBay for tickets if he shows up!)
