Last night we caught bits and pieces of Concert For Diana, the feel good "celebration of life" which featured the voices of Prince William AND Prince Harry (we can't remember the last time we heard their voices, but we're pretty sure they wouldn't have broken yet), footage of the young royals getting jiggy to Nelly Furtado, as well as countless musical superstars performing SMASH HIT after SMASH HIT! Like Status Quo! And Fergie Black Eyed Peas singing a song we recognised solely because it is Lindsay Lohan's private MySpazz site's profile song!

While the entire concert was obviously amazing and wonderful and representative of everything good in the world, Diddy's performance left us feeling a little nauseous, especially when he did a spoken word part during "I'll Be Missing You".

Diddy - (breathlessly earnest voice) "So beautiful! So graceful! So elegant! Princess Diana, we'll never forget you. TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE!"

The latter part of his moving tribute to Diana leading our viewing companion to yell at the television "It's too late, she took the tunnel!"

We also thought the ads that followed Diddy's performance (White Lady Funerals, then a commercial warning against the dangers of speeding) were in marvellous taste. Applause! Applause!

We hope this is not the end of tribute concerts for deceased stars. We'd like to see -

Concert For Kurt!
Concert For Freddie!
Concert For Big Kev!

We are quite prepared to get our hands dirty, particularly for the latter suggestion.

 

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