{"id":2944,"date":"2023-06-29T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:50:05","slug":"blog-june-29th-glastonbury-elton-and-pat-boone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"Blog June 29th \u201cGlastonbury \u2013 Elton and Pat Boone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have never attended Glastonbury, but way back I did attend its forerunner -the Bath Festival of Blues at nearby Shepton Mallett ((well 25 mins away!) I remember seeing Led Zepplin, Fleetwood Mac and The Nice (later Emerson. Lake and Palmer) Seeing the huge crowds at Glastonbury brought all those memories flooding back including an impromptu performance by the folk singer Donavan.
\nThe music of Elton John has never really been my thing but his performance at age 76 with a dodgy hip was, I have to say, pretty amazing. One song did, however, remind me of my post referring to Ed Sheeren\u2019s legal case re plagiarism. In \u201cCrocodile Rock\u201d there is a sing- along part which is identical to one of the hits of American 60s singer Pat Boone \u2013 \u201cSpeedy Gonzales\u201d.
\nHave a listen to the two and see if you agree.
\n\u201cCrocodile Rock\u201d (sorry it is not the Glastonbury performance, but it is pretty much the same as that of Glastonbury with Elton enthusing the audience to la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. (found around 3 min 30 secs
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JrpI7WbJcO8<\/a>
\n\u201cSpeedy Gonzales\u201d (the la, la\u2019s are found around 2mins 20 secs)
\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajEkzwf7WNY<\/a>
\nApparently, the writers of \u201cSpeedy Gonzales\u201d did make the point to Elton, but nothing came of it \u2013 Ed Sheeran eat your heart out!<\/p>\n

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There’s Gonna Be A Party” featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band from the album His Story recorded and produced by Ross I have never attended Glastonbury, but way back I did attend its forerunner -the Bath Festival of Blues at nearby Shepton Mallett ((well 25 mins away!) I remember seeing Led Zepplin, Fleetwood Mac and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}