Goodbye England's Rose
It'll be ten years next year since Princess Diana died in a car in a tunnel in Paris. There will be many ways for the public to express its lasting grief towards Princess Diana, but none more fitting than by having a bit of a jig to Crocodile Rock.
The Princess Diana Memorial Concert is set to take place next July in the new Wembley Stadium, but you my loyal FREDORDEAD readers will, chances are, not be going to it.
Not because the idea of a memorial concert for a woman with an eating disorder makes you want to run into the sea and not stop until you reach the safety of another country. No you won't be going because 60,000 red-eyed housewives and homosexual men with embroideries of Princess Diana as an angel on their walls have already beaten you to it.
The Princess Diana Memorial Concert sold out less than half an hour after the tickets went on sale.
It's been almost a decade since Princess Diana died, and the events of that time still burn brightly. Many people have memories of that day etched into their minds and the eulogies are still prevalent in the press. Everyone has their own misty eyed version of the loss of this young beautiful princess snatched from us like a young petal in full bloom etc etc.
For instance, David Hasselhoff remembers Princess Diana because she almost had sex with him and George Michael remembers Princess Diana because she almost had sex with him - but what about the rest of us? The ones that Princess Diana didn't want to have sex with?
Luckily Prince William and his brother Prince Harry have organised a special concert for those who she didn't want to have sex with. The Princess Diana Didn't Want To Have Sex With You But Here's Andrew Lloyd Webber Anyway Memorial Concert - or Princess Diana Memorial Concert for short.
Only you can't go to it because the Princess Diana Memorial Concert sold out in less than 30 minutes, as CNN reports:
Tickets for a pop concert to mark the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death sold out 30 minutes after going on sale, organisers have said… The concert, organised by Diana's sons, Princes William and Harry, will take place at the renovated Wembley stadium in London next July and feature acts including Elton John, Duran Duran and Pharrell Williams. The £45 ($88) tickets for the tribute were up for grabs from 9 a.m. but they were already attracting bids of up to £200 each on the online auction eBay. The online message read: "For now, tickets have sold out. We hope very much that more tickets will be released in the New Year. Please keep checking back here for further information."
So far the line-up for the Princess Diana Memorial Concert also includes Bryan Ferry, Joss Stone and the English National Ballet. The concert organisers have promised that more acts that reflect Princess Diana's musical tastes will be announced soon, which means that Chris De Burgh will inevitably sing Lady In Red. Also, it's being strongly rumoured that The Spice Girls will reform for the concert, as Princess Diana was thought to have been a fan of the four singles The Spice Girls released just before she died.
Please remember though, that Princess Diana was not the only person to die in that horrible crash, and a special Dodi Al Fayed memorial concert is also scheduled to take place next year, featuring a confused-looking Michael Jackson half-heartedly yelping "We Are The World" while Uri Geller bends spoons with his mind and Mohamed Al Fayed plays the bongos in Harrods car park at 2am on a Wednesday night.
Goodbye Englands Rose.....
© 2006 Fredordead
posted by Freddy @ Thursday, December 14, 2006
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