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Elton John is coming to Tampa. Be still my heart.
That’s Sir Elton, to you, which shows how far the UK has devolved culturally. Superannuated rockers now carry the same honorific as Sir Winston Churchill.
Fortunately, tonight’s sing-along will be at the Sun Dome, on the campus of the University of South Florida, a dozen miles from my house. Trent Merrill, general manager of the Dome, which has recently undergone a $35 million lift and tuck, has pronounced himself thrilled with the booking. I’m happy for him.
I hope and trust Sir Elton will serenade the locals with his most famous and most mawkish number, “A Candle Breaking Wind.”
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Occam's Tool| 9.14.12 @ 3:16PM
Sir Elton is right on Israel and right on Islam. He's certainly a better Knight than Sir Mick.
RCV| 9.14.12 @ 7:09PM
He's a pretty good singer and song writer, too. Cut him a little slack.
Bob Grant| 9.14.12 @ 9:44PM
He deserves no slack. He hasn't made a decent album since '76 and has a big mouth on things about which he knows nothing.
He's a moronic diva on par with Madonna or Cher.
RCV| 9.14.12 @ 11:55PM
Well, that's why they make 46 different kinds of toothpaste, Mr. Grant.
jothepro| 9.15.12 @ 8:01AM
If you think he is a good song writer, you don't know what your talking about.
Tom Kyba| 9.15.12 @ 2:42PM
You lefties have a real knack for unintentional irony don't you?
Brian Richard Allen | 9.15.12 @ 4:15PM
.... I pray and trust the appropriately named John (shades of that joker, Mz Degenerate) will serenade the locals with his most famous and most mawkish number, "A Candle Breaking Wind ...."
Sung to the memory of the Modern Era's most maudlinly celebrated slattern.