Rock Legends Not Recognised By Queen
Refreshing news from Buckingham Palace where the Queen hosted a musical theme day and put guests ranging from Terry Wogan to Phil Collins firmly in their place.
Gods of the pop industry were reduced to nonentity status by her Majesty's inability to recognise the likes of Brian May, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck.
"What do you do?" she asked Brian May and followed up by asking Clapton how long he had been playing the guitar.
"Next was Jeff Beck, like Clapton and Page a former Yardbird. Her Majesty was duly informed of the fact. "We're all from Surrey,"added Clapton, grasping for some point of commonality. Luckily, the Queen had heard of Surrey."
(Daily Telegraph)
I bet she recognised Terry Wogan.
Now for all you John Cage fans out there I submit the following links -
An excellent performance of 4'33" by Margaret Leng Tan performing on a toy piano.
A video clip of John Cage himself playing 4'33" on a piano in a street.
The last two links are from
http://home.flash.net/~jronsen/cagelinks.html.
Posted by Milt at 9:43:00 am
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