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Bodo
Mar-14-2011, 10:15 GMT
Austria
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Queen mom´s favourite artist: Paul Simon
Among her favourite tracks were said to be `You Can Call Me Al`, the hit single from Paul Simon`s multi-platinum 1986 album Graceland, which featured a range of African musicians.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfam
ily/8378972/Queen-Mother-enjoyed-listening-to-Cari
bbean-steel-bands-and-Paul-Simon.html
Haha :)
It goes on: ´She had very catholic tastes in music´[]
She might have never understood the penis joke in you can call me Al ;)
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Scaaty
Mar-14-2011, 11:58 GMT
Ireland
 | She was very much an individual. The film, the Kings Speech, shows her as the power behind the throne and very much her own person. |
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deleted_user
Mar-14-2011, 13:42 GMT
Unknown
 | With all the important things happening in the world, I am amazed that anyone pays any attention to royalty. In the US, the media is trying its best to hype up some royal wedding as if it was news. Pathetic. |
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Bodo
Mar-14-2011, 14:01 GMT
Austria
| You are right Richard...but we need some good news too I think. I got this via the google news update to my email account.
It´s disturbing at the moment. |
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DannyJ
Mar-14-2011, 18:55 GMT
United Kingdom
 | The media wouldn´t bother unless there was a massive appetite for it, and the US history is indelibly linked to this side of the pond... |
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Forum guest
Mar-14-2011, 21:03 GMT
Unknown
| the world is a great big place that encompasses vast tragedies and small triumphs and rock albums and royals and all of it. One thing does not push the others out of existence and in the long run, none of it is more or less meaningful than anything else. As Paul would say, (If all the humans vanished,) would a Zebra shed one Zebra tear? The earth doesn´t care about any of this stuff, I think anyway, and if it makes you feel better or enriches your life or only entertains you to read about the royals, that´s your right and business. |
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DannyJ
Mar-14-2011, 21:34 GMT
United Kingdom
| Thank you Forum Guest, great words :-) |
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Carol
Mar-15-2011, 15:06 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Wow, that surprises me about the Queen Mother -- she had excellent taste. Thanks for sharing, Bodo! |
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Gerard
Mar-16-2011, 00:55 GMT
New Zealand
 | I guess she related to You Can Call Me Al because she was a Betty looking for her long lost bodyguard/Pal.
Great to think at 86 years Old (in 1986) that she would enjoy this. |
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deleted_user
Mar-16-2011, 13:00 GMT
Unknown
| I disagree with Forum Guest that everything is of equal importance or non-importance. Sure, the human race is likely to destroy itself, so you can state that nothing anyone does makes a difference in the long run, but clearly some things are more important than others.
The US media creates an appetite for garbage news, like the royal wedding in order to keep the population distracted from reality. Like all previous empires, the US is in free fall, but the powers that be, which run the media, don´t want people to focus on stopping all our wars, or protecting the environment. So they serve up a steady pablum of sports, celebrities and gossip. Having no genuine relevance, royalty fits in the gossip category.
Contary to Forum Guest, I believe a cure for cancer (or Aids, or war, or poverty or animal cruelty, etc.) is more important than some Nobody who happened to be born in a family of historical import marrying some other nobody. |
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DannyJ
Mar-16-2011, 19:59 GMT
United Kingdom
| So much negativity... how miserable, and lazy!
It takes a lot of effort to be positive. Negativity and pessimism is a downward spiral.
P.S. If you don´t like the news, don´t watch it! (seems so obvious?) |
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