Sir Elton feeding on past glories

“Saturday night's alright for fighting,” Elton John shrieked in the days when the songs he sang had some edge, the caricature hadn't become the man and I used to listen to him - well at least a little.

But that was then. Elton John is now what Naked Civil Servant Quentin Crisp decided he himself had become: “One of the stately homos of England'‘.

Tabloid-tuned sentiment in Britain elevates certain royals, peoples' champions ...