Yes, James, the coverage was as ridiculous as it was undeserved, especially in the US. She seemed to me to be a perfectly nice person in a thankless position, but why the canonization? She was famous simply because she was well known.

Part of the problem is that there is usually no news at the end of August, and this August was especially slow. The entire Northern hemishere (including virtually every government) was on vacation, the world was relatively quiet, and news producers were in desperate need of content.

As for the song, well, the less said the better, but it won't outsell The Spice girls, let alone Bing. I'd read that one of her favorite songs was "Your Song" and that was what EJ was going to sing, but the Royals nixed it as undignified. Anybody else hear something like that?