Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
Hoodoo
Reuters
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060521/3/40zmd.html
Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
Please note strong language in paragraph 5.
CANNES, France (Reuters) - British pop star Elton John launched an
expletive-laden tirade against the press in Cannes late on Saturday
while presenting an award to a young actor during the annual film
festival.
At a ceremony held by luxury jeweller Chopard, everything seemed to be
going smoothly enough as John presented the Chopard Trophy to young
Canadian actor Kevin Zegers, who co-starred in the film "Transamerica"
with Felicity Huffman.
"He (Zegers) is only 21 years old, already he showed incredible talent
and maturity," said John, wearing dark glasses and accompanied by
actress Elizabeth Hurley.
"I sincerely believe he will be a huge star and a great actor for
many, many years to come."
Then, as photographers called out during his address, he added: "If
you saw 'Transamerica' ... I'm talking ... you fuckwit, fucking
photographers you should be shot, you should be all shot. Thank you."
After handing the award to a smiling Zegers, he added: "They are a
nightmare."
John, who is 59, is no stranger to strong language. Most recently,
viewers complained when he swore during the Paul O'Grady Show on
British television.
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Alan Hope
Poor Reg. If only the press had left him in peace all these years. I
mean, it's not as if he went out courting the attention of
photographers:
http://www.magicasruinas.com.ar/rock/fotopelo/fotopelo0018.JPG
http://www.panopt.com/photogra/pownall/Elton_John_B04.jpg
http://www.hyenaproductions.com/images/elton13.jpg
http://www.chopard.com/worldwide/fl/eltonjohn05/pictures/WTTB2005_Image24.jpg
http://manoloshoeblog.com/images/eltontutu.jpg
http://elveteran.mon-blog.org/images/24487/people/Elton%20J.jpg
http://www.take-that.co.uk/ttgrasiani/gallery/data/media/299/GaryDawnGParty2.jpg
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/versie2/nieuws/details/051221EltonJohn/M_051221_huwelijkEltonJohn2_b.jpg
http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/04/10/imageNYRD11404101900.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41148000/jpg/_41148520_official.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41148000/jpg/_41148552_rings_big.jpg
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00223/Elton_John_og_og_Da_223650m.jpg
http://www.ananova.com/images/news/elton_CourageAP410x405.jpg
And so on ...
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R H Draney
>
>CANNES, France (Reuters) - British pop star Elton John launched an
>expletive-laden tirade against the press in Cannes late on Saturday
>while presenting an award to a young actor during the annual film
>festival.
The bitch, it would seem, is back again....r
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what they tell me I'm supposed to like.
Charlene
R H Draney wrote:
> Hoodoo filted:
> >
> >CANNES, France (Reuters) - British pop star Elton John launched an
> >expletive-laden tirade against the press in Cannes late on Saturday
> >while presenting an award to a young actor during the annual film
> >festival.
>
> The bitch, it would seem, is back again....r
That man has been going through the longest menopause on record.
Twenty-three years and counting....
wd42
Will
presentation was taking place. Elton was right this time.
R H Draney
I've seen him in some quieter moments...he was very well-behaved a few months
back when he was interviewed on "Inside the Actors Studio", despite the host
asking some *very* prying questions and coaxing him into performing eight or
nine complete songs...I put it down to him being in a relatively quite place in
his life; he cleaned up his drug use and excessive drinking, got into a stable
relationship, and hadn't had any close high-profile friends die in a
while...plus he's getting older and seems not to be upset by that (the reduction
in his singing range from removal of some nodes was mentioned, and it was
apparent later when he sang "Daniel")....
And then he goes and pulls something like this...it's not as if he has to
*prove* to people that he's capable of being pissy...c'mon, Reg, haven't you
heard the expression "be the bigger man"?...r
Ed Varner
Hoodoo wrote:
> May 22
> Reuters
> http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060521/3/40zmd.html
>
> Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
as long as it is with a bullet from the gun of Robert Ford.
Ed
R H Draney
>
>Hoodoo wrote:
>>
>> Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
>
>as long as it is with a bullet from the gun of Robert Ford.
That may just be the most obscure lyric reference yet...so where to now, St
Peter?...r
Stacia
>Ed Varner filted:
>>Hoodoo wrote:
>>>
>>> Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
>>
>>as long as it is with a bullet from the gun of Robert Ford.
>That may just be the most obscure lyric reference yet...so where to now, St
>Peter?...r
Do NOT make me start quoting "I Am Your Robot", for you WILL regret
it. Also: anything from "Victim of Love". You have been warned.
The live "Robert Ford" from the 1990 box set is one of my favorite
songs. I don't care that the percussionist (Ray Cooper, maybe?) gets
discombobulated for a moment in the middle of it. It's beautiful.
Stacia
James Neibaur
lot of attention, eh?
JN
King Daevid MacKenzie
> Apparently the guy whose last good album was released in 1973 doesn't want a
> lot of attention, eh?
...good _album_?? Has he aqctually had a good _single_ since
"Friends"??!?...
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Tommy Joe
> Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
I think it's funny that photo sessions are called 'shoots'. My
brother is a photographer with his own business. He makes most of his
cash photographing pets. I might call him one night and he'll say he's
going to be tied up the next day because he'll be shooting some pets in
the morning.
I wonder how that might sound to someone over-hearing it in a
restaurant booth. Like if my brother hadn't had any jobs in many
months and was desperate for work, he might say aloud to me, "Damn, I
really need to shoot some pets sometime soon or I just don't know what
I'm going to do!" Then slowly people begin to get up and leave the
restaurant.
Tommy Joe
James Neibaur
>> Apparently the guy whose last good album was released in 1973 doesn't want a
>> lot of attention, eh?
>
> ...good _album_?? Has he aqctually had a good _single_ since
> "Friends"??!?...
yeah, but he left it where the dogs of society howl
JN
R H Draney
>
>James Neibaur sez:
>
>> Apparently the guy whose last good album was released in 1973 doesn't want a
>> lot of attention, eh?
>
>...good _album_?? Has he aqctually had a good _single_ since
>"Friends"??!?...
The cutoff between good Elton and bad Elton is the point where he stopped
collaborating exclusively with Bernie Taupin and Gus Dudgeon...after searching
out everything he had done up to what was then the present, I stuck with him as
far as "Blue Moves" and "A Single Man"...while both of those albums had a few
decent bits, they were mainly overstuffed collections of filler...the first CD
release of "Blue Moves" even omitted three tracks so they could fit it on one
disc, and not many people complained....
The best thing he's done since the early days was the album "21 at 33", which
inexplicably isn't available on CD....r
Brad Ferguson
<echoes...@charter.net> wrote:
> James Neibaur sez:
>
> > Apparently the guy whose last good album was released in 1973 doesn't want a
> > lot of attention, eh?
>
> ...good _album_?? Has he aqctually had a good _single_ since
> "Friends"??!?...
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is one of the great albums of the era.
After that, well, no arguments from here.
Alan Hope
>"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is one of the great albums of the era.
Yes, it was. Though the era seems so dated now.
>After that, well, no arguments from here.
RIGHT after that. Solar Prestige A Gammon, anyone?
Brown Dirt Cowboy? Who even suspected?
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James Neibaur
>>> Apparently the guy whose last good album was released in 1973 doesn't want a
>>> lot of attention, eh?
>>
>> ...good _album_?? Has he aqctually had a good _single_ since
>> "Friends"??!?...
>
>
> "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is one of the great albums of the era.
>
> After that, well, no arguments from here.
Was I one off on the year when I said 1973? I couldn't remember if Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road was '73 or '74. I do agree that is his last good album.
Elements of it have dated, naturally, but it still strongly represents its
era.
JN
James Neibaur
>> "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is one of the great albums of the era.
>
> Yes, it was. Though the era seems so dated now.
True, but the early seventies are easier to handle than the late seventies
-- and way easier than the 80s.
JN
Brad Ferguson
<jnei...@wi.rr.com> wrote:
I did this old school: Instead of looking it up on the web, I looked at
the copyright date on the original album cover. It's 1973.
James Neibaur
> I did this old school: Instead of looking it up on the web, I looked at
> the copyright date on the original album cover. It's 1973.
Old school never fails. Thanks Brad.
R H Draney
Now that we've got *that* out of the way, it was two years later that Elton
featured in a record-setting event on the Billboard charts...the longest
continuous string of songs to occupy the #1 spot for only one week occurred in
the first four months of 1975:
18Jan "Mandy" - Barry Manilow
25Jan "Please Mr Postman" - Carpenters
01Feb "Laughter in the Rain" - Neil Sedaka
08Feb "Fire" - Ohio Players
15Feb "You're No Good" - Linda Ronstadt
22Feb "Pick Up the Pieces" - Average White Band
01Mar "Best of My Love" - Eagles
08Mar "Have You Never Been Mellow" - Olivia Newton-John
15Mar "Black Water" - Doobie Brothers
22Mar "My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli
29Mar "Lady Marmalade" - Labelle
05Apr "Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton
That's twelve weeks in a row that you could have listened to the countdown and
heard a different song in the top spot each week...bracketing this streak, with
*two* weeks each at number one, were Elton's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and
"Philadelphia Freedom", the latter still in that position when I graduated from
high school...("Island Girl" got to #1 in November)....r
James Neibaur
> 18Jan "Mandy" - Barry Manilow
> 25Jan "Please Mr Postman" - Carpenters
> 01Feb "Laughter in the Rain" - Neil Sedaka
> 08Feb "Fire" - Ohio Players
> 15Feb "You're No Good" - Linda Ronstadt
> 22Feb "Pick Up the Pieces" - Average White Band
> 01Mar "Best of My Love" - Eagles
> 08Mar "Have You Never Been Mellow" - Olivia Newton-John
> 15Mar "Black Water" - Doobie Brothers
> 22Mar "My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli
> 29Mar "Lady Marmalade" - Labelle
> 05Apr "Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton
My god the late seventies were awful! No wonder I started listening to
punk!
JN
Stacia
>I did this old school: Instead of looking it up on the web, I looked at
>the copyright date on the original album cover. It's 1973.
You're right. I thought it was '72. I've got about a dozen original
Elton John 33 RPMs from the 70-76 era and he put out so many it's hard
to keep track.
Stacia
Stacia
>Brad Ferguson goes:
>>"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is one of the great albums of the era.
>Yes, it was. Though the era seems so dated now.
Captain Fantastic wears much better than the whole of GYBR. Except
for the one thoroughly mid-70s disco track "Tell Me When the Whistle
Blows", which hasn't aged well. CF is the only EJ album I can listen to
all the way through.
>>After that, well, no arguments from here.
>RIGHT after that. Solar Prestige A Gammon, anyone?
Years ago I belonged to an Elton John mailing list run by a guy who
worked with EJ back in the day -- I forget is name but his nickname was
"Hoops". Someone had the relationship between Levon and Jesus confused
(from the song "Levon") and I corrected them. "Hoops" lost his mind,
accusing me of reading too much into the lyrics of EJ songs and saying I
was one of the people that "Solar Prestige a Gammon" was written for.
I can't hear the name of the song without thinking about that.
Stacia
Alan Hope
So it does mean something to somebody. Thank God for that.
Now, when you say "Captain Fantastic wears much better etc" do you
mean the song or the album? I found the claim so outlandish I went to
check on the track list:
1. "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" - 5:46
2. "Tower of Babel" - 4:28
3. "Bitter Fingers" - 4:34
4. "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows" - 4:20
5. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - 6:45
6. "(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket" - 4:01
7. "Better Off Dead" - 2:37
8. "Writing" - 3:40
9. "We All Fall in Love Sometimes" - 4:11
10. "Curtains" - 6:40
11. "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" [*] (John Lennon, Paul
McCartney) - 6:18
12. "One Day (At a Time)" [*] (Lennon) - 3:49
13. "Philadelphia Freedom" [*] - 5:23
Two reasonable songs (5 and 13, which was not on the original vinyl),
a terrible cover (11) and a lot of stuff I've either forgotten (not a
good sign) or really bad (my memory of the thing as a whole).
So that really just leaves Someone Saved Someone Saved Someone Saved
My Life Tonight Someone Saved My Life ... Tonight. Or whatever it's
called.
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James Neibaur
> You're right. I thought it was '72. I've got about a dozen original
> Elton John 33 RPMs from the 70-76 era and he put out so many it's hard
> to keep track.
I knew I was a sophomore in high school when Benny and the Jets hit top 40,
so I knew it had to be 73-74
JN
James Neibaur
> Now, when you say "Captain Fantastic wears much better etc" do you
> mean the song or the album? I found the claim so outlandish I went to
> check on the track list:
>
> 1. "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" - 5:46
> 2. "Tower of Babel" - 4:28
> 3. "Bitter Fingers" - 4:34
> 4. "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows" - 4:20
> 5. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - 6:45
> 6. "(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket" - 4:01
> 7. "Better Off Dead" - 2:37
> 8. "Writing" - 3:40
> 9. "We All Fall in Love Sometimes" - 4:11
> 10. "Curtains" - 6:40
> 11. "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" [*] (John Lennon, Paul
> McCartney) - 6:18
> 12. "One Day (At a Time)" [*] (Lennon) - 3:49
> 13. "Philadelphia Freedom" [*] - 5:23
>
> Two reasonable songs (5 and 13, which was not on the original vinyl),
I was wondering about that, as I didn't recall Philadelphia Freedom on the
original LP. God I hated that song.
> a terrible cover (11)
amen!
> and a lot of stuff I've either forgotten (not a
> good sign) or really bad (my memory of the thing as a whole).
He kept enjoying success, but the quality dropped off very quickly after
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
JN
James Neibaur
> I thought it was '72.
Didn't he release both Honky Chateau and Don't Shoot Me...Piano Player both
in '72? I am going by memory here.
JN
robertc...@yahoo.com
R H Draney wrote:
> Hoodoo filted:
> >
> >CANNES, France (Reuters) - British pop star Elton John launched an
> >expletive-laden tirade against the press in Cannes late on Saturday
> >while presenting an award to a young actor during the annual film
> >festival.
>
> The bitch, it would seem, is back again....r
>
>
I'm not arguing with you, but I would imagine that John still has a lot
of hostility toward the press after the death of his friend Princess
Diana, whom many believe was hounded to her death by photographers.
James Neibaur
>> Didn't he release both Honky Chateau and Don't Shoot Me...Piano Player both
>> in '72? I am going by memory here.
>
> "Honky Chateau" was 1972, "Don't Shoot Me" was 1973.
Thanks Terry. I remembered they were all around that time. Shoot and
Yellow Brick came out at opposite ends of the same year, apparently.
JN
R H Draney
>
>"James Neibaur" <jnei...@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:C098E9BD.74D52%jnei...@wi.rr.com...
>awful or are you saying the real late '70s really started going bad compared
>to these songs in '75?
> BTW, these 12 songs were only the first 3 full months in '75.
> There was another almost 9 additional months to go for '75!
Maybe James "I foam at the mouth when someone mentiones Norman Greenbaum"
Neibaur divides his decades neatly down the middle...if so, that would make the
last three number ones of the "early" 70s:
07Dec1974 "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas (repeated the following week)
21Dec1974 "Cat's in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin
28Dec1974 "Angie Baby" - Helen Reddy
Now *that's* classic rock!...r
Stacia
>So it does mean something to somebody. Thank God for that.
>Now, when you say "Captain Fantastic wears much better etc" do you
>mean the song or the album? I found the claim so outlandish I went to
>check on the track list:
Not better, just less dated. I think GYBR has a lot of dead weight in
it like Jamaic Jerk-Off, Danny Baily, Alice, Roy Rogers, and Dirty
Little Girl. There's a note he hits on Sweet Painted Lady that could
peel paint off a barn. Oof.
I admit to not liking Funeral/Love or Candle much, while most others
do, so that affects my opinion. The album has no continuity, it's just
a bunch of songs that have been thrown together, albeit some amazing
songs like "This Song Has No Title".
CF&tBDC has a continuity that I love. Most aren't singles or songs
that work except within the context of the whole album. And the album I
have ends at "Curtains" and doesn't have the last 3 "bonus tracks". If
the album skipped from "Babel" to "Someone Saved" it would be much
better, but, alas, too short.
>Two reasonable songs (5 and 13, which was not on the original vinyl),
>a terrible cover (11) and a lot of stuff I've either forgotten (not a
>good sign) or really bad (my memory of the thing as a whole).
I think the 3 bonus tracks were singles that were never on an album,
but were later been tacked onto the CD release of CF&tBDC. Well, a live
version of Philadelphia Freedom may be on "Here & There" but I'm too
lazy to go look.
Stacia
King Daevid MacKenzie
>> I'm not arguing with you, but I would imagine that John still has a lot
>> of hostility toward the press after the death of his friend Princess
>> Diana, whom many believe was hounded to her death by photographers.
>
> Only because she was running and running and running and finally ran
> into a post.
> If she had just stopped running she would still be alive today.
...hunh? Don't flee the paparazzi? That's a strange position for a
Libertarian to take, isn't it?...
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http://www.krfp.org/documents/listen_windowsmedia.asx
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Brad Ferguson
Fuego <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006 22:23:32 GMT, "An Unemployed Eight-Year-Old Girl"
> <r...@att.net> wrote:
>
> > Many times, less is better.
>
> [It's just too easy...]
>
I'm in awe. I don't think even Francis of Assisi ever showed such
restraint.
James Neibaur
> Maybe James "I foam at the mouth when someone mentiones Norman Greenbaum"
> Neibaur divides his decades neatly down the middle...if so, that would make
> the
> last three number ones of the "early" 70s:
>
> 07Dec1974 "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas (repeated the following week)
> 21Dec1974 "Cat's in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin
> 28Dec1974 "Angie Baby" - Helen Reddy
>
> Now *that's* classic rock!...r
The only thing I can say about those three putrid songs is that they aren't
as bad as....
JN
James Neibaur
> last three number ones of the "early" 70s:
>
> 07Dec1974 "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas (repeated the following week)
> 21Dec1974 "Cat's in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin
> 28Dec1974 "Angie Baby" - Helen Reddy
>
> Now *that's* classic rock!...r
The early seventies (70-73), if we are limiting ourselves to Number Ones,
included (from memory) Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle, Rolling Stones, James
Taylor, Carole King, Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes, Al Green, Neil Young, Stevie
Wonder, and Gladys Knight (and, as a footnote, Chuck Berry, and you surely
realize why he is relegated to foot-notoriety during this period). They
were enough to overshadow the occasional Osmonds or Carpenters dreck.
Then came the songs you cite above, and those on the previously posted 1975
list, and disco, and You Light Up My Life spending ten weeks at Number One.
Thank god for Jello Biafra.
And yes I realize that Spirit in the Sky came out in 1970.
JN
King Daevid MacKenzie
...in the '80s, Jello Biafra contributed a monthly "What I've been
playing" Top 10 list to MAXIMUMROCKNROLL Magazine. One month, his list
was topped -- I swear to God this is the truth -- with The Carpenters'
"Bless the Beasts and Children." A friend of mine in San Francisco
claims to have bumped into Biasra at some event or other and asked him
about that, and Biafra responded that he reserved the #1 position on
those playlists for what were, at least for him, legitimate guilty
pleasures. You may take this, as Chip Monck once notably phrased it,
however many grains of salt you wish...
Bill Schenley
> songs is that they aren't as bad as....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131Gqc6bAFQ&search=spirit%20in%20the%20sky
David Samuel Barr
>
> "Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
> news:230520061009537281%thir...@frXOXed.net...
> >
> > I did this old school: Instead of looking it up on the web, I looked
> > at the copyright date on the original album cover. It's 1973.
>
> Good thing you did it old school, as the New Math would probably
> give the date as 1801.
Actually, the date of New Math is 1965:
http://www.com-www.com/musiclyrics/lehrertom-newmath.html
James Neibaur
>> The only thing I can say about those three putrid
>> songs is that they aren't as bad as....
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131Gqc6bAFQ&search=spirit%20in%20the%20sky
aw damn you I was going to post that clip!
JN
James Neibaur
> ...in the '80s, Jello Biafra contributed a monthly "What I've been
> playing" Top 10 list to MAXIMUMROCKNROLL Magazine. One month, his list
> was topped -- I swear to God this is the truth -- with The Carpenters'
> "Bless the Beasts and Children."
And that's funny. I get it completely. A hilarious guilty pleasure.
My most embarrasing guilty pleasure is probably Alice Long by Boyce and
Hart. What a wussy-ass song it is, and I like it.
shamed,
JN
Alan Hope
>Alan Hope <not.al...@mail.com> writes:
I do admire your diligence. You have done your homework.
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