2023 legend slot

[Jose Pose]

35 minutes ago, Simsy said:

Kylie and Barry Gibb might have 10+ household bangers, but is that really the case with Kenny Rogers, ELO or Dolly?

Dolly absolutely has, so has Diana and Lionel who you conveniently missed out. Kenny Rodger’s was a while ago before the slot evolved more to what it is now. ELO was a big swing and a miss, and made Roxy even less likely.

Edited December 3, 2022 by Jose Pose

[Jose Pose]

31 minutes ago, Neil said:

if i ran with the crowd, i'd have said spice girls were legends, even after two had said they'd never been asked.

What about if the spice girls announced they had a special show to announce and on the same day a giant Union Jack and a spice rack appeared on the Pyramid field?

[Jose Pose]

43 minutes ago, Neil said:

it wasn't that with tom jones, it wasn't that with johnny cash. it wasn't that with every act that's played that slot.

 

its for legendary acts, such as roxy music, i had info nit was them, and had every reason to believe that info,

 

roxy were as wrong for that slot as bryan ferry was as a west holts headliner, if michael wants an act it tends to happen.

It isn’t, at all. Only in your head. 

[incident]

1 minute ago, Jose Pose said:

Dolly absolutely has

Really? The comments at the time were that despite large parts of the crowd not knowing all that many songs, she was still able to carry the slot through sheer force of personality.

[maelzoid]

2 minutes ago, incident said:

Really? The comments at the time were that despite large parts of the crowd not knowing all that many songs, she was still able to carry the slot through sheer force of personality.

Conversely I think ELO absolutely do have the hits (15 UK top 10s), but through sheer force of personality were not able to carry the slot!

[Jose Pose]

3 minutes ago, incident said:

Really? The comments at the time were that despite large parts of the crowd not knowing all that many songs, she was still able to carry the slot through sheer force of personality.

I’m no huge Dolly fan and wasn’t even there, but I can think of 5 without even looking.

Roxy music have at best four songs people might recognise, and for the majority if they did recognise them they wouldn’t have known they were by them.

[incident]

3 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

Conversely I think ELO absolutely do have the hits (15 UK top 10s), but through sheer force of personality were not able to carry the slot!

Yep, that's absolutely fair as well.

[maelzoid]

2 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

I’m no huge Dolly fan and wasn’t even there, but I can think of 5 without even looking.

Curious as to those 5... I think Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the stream and I will always love you are the ones that have entered the public consciousness. Looking at her setlist, the only others familiar to me are the covers. (i like Bon Jovi!)

[Jose Pose]

1 minute ago, maelzoid said:

Curious as to those 5... I think Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the stream and I will always love you are the ones that have entered the public consciousness. Looking at her setlist, the only others familiar to me are the covers. (i like Bon Jovi!)

Here you come again is a huge banger 

[Neil]

28 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

It isn’t, at all. Only in your head. 

your take that it was dyuff info is classic no-info.

[CaledonianGonzo]

15 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

Here you come again is a huge banger 

Hell yeah 

[gigpusher]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

There's a few of us been namedropping them for years to play - just in a more standard slot.

Yep Erasure are an every year request from me. Not a legend slot act necessarily but they'd be brilliant.  

[stuie]

1 hour ago, Neil said:

roxy were as wrong for that slot as bryan ferry was as a west holts headliner, if michael wants an act it tends to happen.

So Michael didn’t want Roxy then… he probably thought it would be naff like most people.

[stuie]

12 minutes ago, Neil said:

your take that it was dyuff info is classic no-info.

Well, it was duff info though!

[Phoenix Girl]

I don’t think you can pigeonhole the Legends slot too much because by the very nature of the meaning of legend there aren’t a lot of them around and therefore it would be difficult for it to be filled with a true legend every year. 
 

Just my humble opinion.

I was pretty up for Roxy Music tbf.

[CaledonianGonzo]

49 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

Curious as to those 5... I think Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the stream and I will always love you are the ones that have entered the public consciousness. Looking at her setlist, the only others familiar to me are the covers. (i like Bon Jovi!)

Coat Of Many Colors is a copper-bottomed classic.

[CaledonianGonzo]

But the point re. Dolly being a born entertainer with charisma to spare vs. Jeff Lynne hiding behind his shades and only giving the crowd an occasional thumbs up is spot on.

When the gig is a reciprocal love in - like it was with Lionel, Barry Gibb, Kylie and Diana - there's not much that can match it.

[nikkic]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

But the point re. Dolly being a born entertainer with charisma to spare vs. Jeff Lynne hiding behind his shades and only giving the crowd an occasional thumbs up is spot on.

When the gig is a reciprocal love in - like it was with Lionel, Barry Gibb, Kylie and Diana - there's not much that can match it.

Yep, which is why Robbie is about as much of a tap in for the slot you can get.

His whole show is based on crowd interaction. 

I reckon it’s him next year, Spice Girls 2024.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Robbie will smash it. Just case of when, not if.

[fullfathom5]

Let’s stop mucking around and just hand it over to Beans on Toast.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Only if he'll promise to write a second song to mark the occasion.

[nikkic]

If he did, he’d have one more song than Jeff Lynne. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'm definitely in the "on paper Jeff Lynne deployed nothing but a gold setlist" camp. Mr Blue Sky is actually mid tier when you have Don't Bring Me Down, Living Thing, Sweet Talking Woman and Turn To Stone in your arsenal.

[Superscally]

2 hours ago, Simsy said:

Kylie and Barry Gibb might have 10+ household bangers, but is that really the case with Kenny Rogers, ELO or Dolly?

Kenny Rogers was vocally disappointed with the muted response to Ruby at the time. On stage.

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, maelzoid said:

Curious as to those 5... I think Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the stream and I will always love you are the ones that have entered the public consciousness. Looking at her setlist, the only others familiar to me are the covers. (i like Bon Jovi!)

I will always love you. 

The song too.