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width:32px;height:32px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/64x64\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"WordPress Social Media Feather\" href=\"http:\/\/synved.com\/wordpress-social-media-feather\/\" style=\"color:#444; text-decoration:none; font-size:8px; margin-left:5px;vertical-align:10px;white-space:nowrap;\"><span>by <\/span><img style=\"display: inline;margin:0;padding:0;width:16px;height:16px;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"feather\" src=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/icon.png\" \/><\/a><p>I was cruising the LA Times.com website page &#8220;The Movable Buffet: Dispatches from Las Vegas by Richard Abowitz&#8221; and found a post on (Sir) Elton John: (Sir) &#8220;<strong>Elton John&#8217;s final &#8216;Red Piano&#8217; performance<\/strong>&#8221; (at Caesar&#8217;s Palace in Las Vegas.)  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a bit bummed out over (Sir) Elton ever since he dumped <strong>Marilyn Monroe<\/strong> for <strong>Princess Diana<\/strong>, so to speak.  The dude wrote a love song to MM, singing passionately about America&#8217;s fallen princess&#8230;Then the Brits lost a princess (tragic circumstances,) and once again &#8211; a great loss for the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>But c&#8217;mon dude, write a brand new song, don&#8217;t steal Marilyn&#8217;s song.  Of course I&#8217;m &#8220;speaking&#8221; of &#8220;Candle in the Wind,&#8221; the song (Sir) Elton wrote &#8220;for&#8221; Marilyn Monroe, then rewrote &#8211; changing a few words &#8211; and re-recorded the song &#8220;for&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales\">Princess of Wales<\/a> after her tragic death.  Who did (Sir) Elton dishoner more: the desperately-gorgeous, Blonde American Princess, the preciously-beautiful, British Royal Princess or (Sir) Elton John? <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I digress, back to the great Abowitz: &#8220;Goodbye, Elton John. Though I never interviewed you at all, I saw the Red Piano that sold out while the shows around you did not.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And, it seems to me that you worked the Colosseum like a beacon amidst the neon, always knowing which hits to play to make the crowds applaud.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And, I would have liked to interview you, but I am just a blogger, and so you packed your shows in Vegas without the Movable Buffet.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/vegasblog.latimes.com\/vegas\/2009\/04\/elton-johns-final-red-piano-performance.html\">Click this link to view &#8220;The Movable Buffet: Dispatches from Las Vegas by Richard Abowitz&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"318.75\" height=\"258\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HstHE_BwUs4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HstHE_BwUs4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"318.75\" height=\"258\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Musician Sir Elton John performs during the final performance of his show &#8220;The Red Piano&#8221; at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace April 22, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. John played 241 concerts in the 4,300-seat showroom since he began his run as one of the resort&#8217;s resident headliners in February 2004.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/pictures\/lGwLuULmIoT\/Elton+John+Final+Bow+Caesars+Palace\/0NwzCn2FCt9\">read more from Zimbio.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by I was cruising the LA Times.com website page &#8220;The Movable Buffet: Dispatches from Las Vegas by Richard Abowitz&#8221; and found a post on (Sir) Elton John: (Sir) &#8220;Elton John&#8217;s final &#8216;Red Piano&#8217; performance&#8221; (at Caesar&#8217;s Palace in Las Vegas.) I&#8217;ve been a bit bummed out over (Sir) Elton ever since he dumped Marilyn Monroe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,2],"tags":[174,178,172,171,175,123,176,177,173,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}