To think Elton John performing Candle in the Wind was a bit wierd??

[lurchermummy]

I just thought it was an odd choice given that he performed that song at Diana's funeral? Must bring back unhappy memories for the royals surely?

Thank god for small mercies.

🤭

Took the time to create a post to complain about a programme that you didn't watch and were wrong about anyway! These are the type of people who email ofcom about things they never watched days after it was broadcast.

Cancel the cheque!!!!!

The threads on last night’s jubilee show are very entertaining.

When he started the first few notes I did think it was Candle in the Wind and was like WTF?!

The opening notes/tone were purposefully matched to Candle to create a fleeting similarity (possibly, as a gentle ode to Diana). I believe he did this intentionally as he is enough of a genius to pull it off with grace (unlike most of the others on the stage last night). However, it then rapidly/obviously shifted to the known arrangement of the song on the setlist.
There was a strong sense that Diana should have been there making her first large platform stage debut as the queen-in-waiting rather than Tom Parker Bowles' mischievous mum.

Harry was never going to attend a concert in which she was sneakily being debut anted as the succeeding queen.

Wishful thinking.

He never changed anything at the beginning of the song

I just love this response 😆

OP specsavers do reasonably priced hearing tests 😁

If it makes you feel any better, I said exactly the same to DH last night when it started up!

Why create a post about something you didn’t watch?

I didn't see the concern, I saw your thread title and thought, surely not...

The opening notes of Your Song have always been vaguely reminiscent of the opening of CITW.

Wasn’t it Will and Kates first dance to Your Dong (I meant Your Song but have decided to leave it - caught the D instead of the S 🤭)

All together now 'It's a little bit funny'..........

Dh and I thought the same! The opening bars are very similar...

Should have done ‘I’m still standing’.

'Oh, I'll just remind you of your Dead Mum by playing the opening chords to the completely different song that I'm playing'

Your Song is in E flat major, Candle in the Wind is in E Major.

Admittedly, a lot of people can't easily distinguish between semitones without a reference, but really?

As it was recorded, there was no chance of it being anything other than respectful, and given the number of people who like atonal bad karaoke, no wonder some people cannot distinguish between E flat major and E major.

Thank god for all PPs, I seriously thought I'd completely blocked out part of the concert.

Ah come on, who hasn't made a tit out of themselves on MN? Rite of passage, innit?