awaiting Prince in the halftime show with interest.

Dancing brass band brilliant. Silhouette fabulous. Mrs Mop headscarf awful. Looks trim; sounded great in parts, like the Curate's Egg; amazing shape for his age; Purple Rain wonderfully apt.

All in all I wonder if he has a very small Portrait in his attic.

..or maybe a cosmetic surgeon.

It`s this seasons must have..

Seriously though, I just think he keeps himself very fit, that guy`s got ten years on me, thats scary.

anyone else feel there was a touch of prince trying to grab both james brown and jimi hendrix's crowns?

I thought Prince was great, considering the conditions. It was absolutely lashing down!

Did anyone else notice Billy Joel's vocals warbling, much like Cher's vocals when put throuh a Vocoder on her song "Believe"? It sounded like he'd been shoved through an overly aggressive auto tune program. I'm a massive fan of his, and he certainly can sing.

Or was it just me?

I think he`s been going for both for a while.
I`m a big Prince fan, but he`s an artist with so material to wade through to get to the good ones.
It would of course be interesting to research if James Brown was booked at some point for the gig. I think any theories about Jimi Hendrix being asked are long gone sadly.

Man In Hattan wrote:
anyone else feel there was a touch of prince trying to grab both james brown and jimi hendrix's crowns?
Prince wears both crowns comfortably already. He's also a big Santana fan. He's also part Cab Calloway. Except that with all due respect, no-one but Prince could write stuff like "The Cross" and "Sexymotherfucker" or "Purple Rain" and "Kiss". Does anyone remember the "Sign o' The Times" tour (let alone the magnificent album of the same name)? Why does pop music seem so flat since I've seen these 8 minutes on YouTube?

wasn't that always the case?

Prince certainly seems to be favourite with the younger guitarist types. Ranging from "I didn't know he played guitar" via "I didn't know he could play that many instruments" to know it all.

They're certainly impressed.

The old grumpies are wondering about that odd Autotune noise that replaced Billy Joel's vocals.

Autotune or no autotune, I thought he was good... I've just listened to his live version on Songs From The Attic of Captain Jack... when he's good he can be very very good (unfortunately, when he's not he's unbearably MOR).

Never could get into American Football. Far too slow. But I do like Billy Joel, so if I'd known he was performing I might have tuned in for the opening.