Newly released papers show the singer was slated to perform a very different tune all together.
Celebrity Newly released papers show the singer was slated to perform a very different tune all together. On September 6,1997, more than 3.2 million people tuned in to watch Princess Diana’s funeral service at Westminster Abbey, where Elton John arguably delivered one of the most poignant and memorable performances in modern British history. Newly released records have revealed that the performance almost didn’t happen, and that Elton John was originally slated to sing a very different tune. In the records released by the National Archives, the Dean of Westminster, Very Rev Dr Wesley Carr, is shown to personally recommend to Buckingham Palace for Elton John to sing Candle In The Wind, despite fears from the Palace that the song would be too “sentimental.
