Conference marvin::uk_music

    
    For me Joe Cocker showed the rest of the assembled artistes how it
    should be done. I thought Roberta Flack was pretty ok as well.
    
    Now if anyone can explain to me in words of one sylaable what Kylie
    Minogue was doing there I would be extremely grateful !!
    
    Rich
    

    Personally there were two acts worth listening/seeing Dave Edmunds
    and Dave A. Stewart. Stewart's band may have looked a shambles but
    their version of Instant Karma was probably the best rendition of
    Instant Karma that I've heard.
    
    
    Paul

    How good was TTD'arby?  I missed it.
    
    
    matty

    I enjoyed the whole show.  Sure, there were great bits, and some
    not so great, but on the whole, a good event.
    
    Did Cindy Lauper really forget the words to Working Class Hero?
    Did Joe Cocker really try to introduce the chorus to Come Together
    early?  And why did Ray Charles elect to sing a McCartney Song?
    
    Annoyances:
    
    The Cue Card intros between each act...
    
    The cutting between channels meaning that we lost most of I am the
    Walrus.
    
    The fact that my VCR switched off in the middle of Give Peace a
    Chance.  Did anything happen after that?
    
    Who was in the JL House Band?
    
    /Dave

    I agree with most of people have already said.  Yes, it was quite
    entertaining and I liked hearing the various remixing.  However, I
    think perhaps I am just a little too cynical.  Indeed, why exactly was
    Kylie there?  And why did she have to explain in great detail what
    Lennon meant to her and her musical influences?  Blimey, she isn't even
    old enough to be influenced.  Also, Yoko gave me the creeps as did her
    son.  Luckily, the bits I did see when she was talking, it seemed the
    crowd weren't listening anyway.  Julian should of been there - he has a
    lot of talent which wouldn't of gone amiss.  I have a feeling though
    that didn't Yoko oesterise him from the Lennon clan?
    
    And I thought Wet Wet Wet were good as well.  (Yeah I know, I'll get
    some ribbing for that).
    
    In summary, I reckon Paul and Ringo were right to stay away. 
    Entertaining but forgettable.

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>    Personally there were two acts worth listening/seeing Dave Edmunds
>    and Dave A. Stewart. Stewart's band may have looked a shambles but
>    their version of Instant Karma was probably the best rendition of
>    Instant Karma that I've heard.

Well summed up. I only saw Hall and Oates - Awful! Kylie - <Silence>!
and TTD'arby - OK. and Dave A. Stewart - Best of a bad bunch.

TV got switched off then. Truly a forgetable event.

Dave

    Well, I saw a bit of it, just to see what it was like, and I thought
    the whole presentation was horrible, had nothing to do with ROCK
    AND ROLL, etc. It was more like some awful award ceremony than a
    celebration of an artist.
    
    Much as I like some of Lennon's songs, I can really do without this
    semi-deifying of someone who was basically only doing a job. I mean,
    from what I saw of it, Lennon was responsible (by implication) for
    practically every advance in Western pop music after Elvis started
    the whole thing off.
    
    Musically, the bits I saw were very variable; although I didn't
    like his contribution, TTD at leat tried do do something different
    with 'his' song, but for me the best part was Lou Reed's Jealous
    Guy - he made it sound as if he wrote it himself.
    
    Bob

I don't suppose there was any mention of his more primal efforts?  I have the
album `Two Virgins' by him and Yoko, two sides of screaming, banging, bonking
with a chimp on the piano for accompaniment.  Now if somebody had done a 
tribute to that stuff the show would have been worth watching!

Lee