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Off Topic Glastonbury 2022

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2022.

  1. stanleyparkerbowles

    stanleyparkerbowles Well-Known Member

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    Bowie was marvelous but I think you’ll find the big songs will come thick and fast now
     
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    My mum would be cold out there at his age
     
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    Seeing as Bowie died in 2016, that must've been an impressive performance <laugh>
     
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    I realised that I put the wrong date, and I changed it, but you quoted the right one <laugh>
     
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    **** me, now he's playing ' Love Me Do' he's been badly advised ... and now some **** folk song ... this is really **** for a headline act.
     
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  6. Steelmonkey

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    Should've been a Beatles and Wings party.

    I saw Bob Dylan at Glastonbury, one of the worst, ****test performances I've ever seen. Loads of new material that no one had ever heard. Only song any one knew was a complete bastardised version of Lay Lady Lay - was so gutted.

    The same year, we saw Rolf Harris (pre-paedo days) ...he was great!
     
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    Yes thought it was too recent though I do remember them showing it recently
     
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    Could be worse you could be watching the Stones at Hyde Park
     
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  9. QPR999

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    I think Cliff Richard stole a living from the music industry but he would've put on a better performance than McCartney this evening. God this is awful, feel sorry for the punters who forked out for this.
     
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    An odd comparison.
     
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    Now banging on about how great Liverpool is and every successful Scouser lives in London or thereabouts. Paul McCartney has a mansion in St John's Wood, next door to Lord's cricket ground. Jimmy Tarbuck lives up the road from me and lives in a mansion backing onto a golf course.
     
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    Cliff Richard had a lot of **** songs, McCartney is a legend, but Cliff's crap songs would've probably trumped McCartney's worst songs. It seems someone has said ... go out there Paul and see if you can get away with playing your worst songs and get away with it? His set has been awful.
     
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    Pogues,Dubliners and Christy Moore those were the days, now they just continue to wheel out Paul McCartney and call glasto the greatest festival ever?!
     
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    As much as I love The Beatles, his voice has let him down towards the back end of this set. I hope this is a big farewell, but somehow doubt it....
     
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    I think he's magnificent for performing at eighty years of age, but that's far too old. Diana Ross at seventy eight tomorrow will be carnage.
     
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  16. Stroller

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    Here comes Dave to save the day.
     
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    My wife saw Diana Ross last week in Glasgow, said she was fabulous
     
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    Glad to hear it Steels.
     
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    And now Brucie. It's good to have friends in high places.
     
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    I don't think she's for me, although I consider her a legend. Weirdly, I wouldn't mind seeing Tina Turner or Billy Ocean.
     
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