Olivia Newton John's mate - James Newton Howard conducted his first concert last night at the Albert Hall. His first claim to fame was as Elton's keyboard player, back in the day when Elton still wore the platform shoes, the Dame Edna glasses and had just enough hair left on his head to make a small fringe. James eventually got sick of watching Elton lovingly stroke David Furnish's beard and turned to composing film scores instead - King Kong being one of his biggest and also where he had to do a fair bit of beard stroking himself to appease Peter Jackson's expectations. Anyway last night was absolutely frisking amazing - the Albert Hall is immense and the size of it, coupled with the fabulous orchestra and the lovely film tunes had me crying for at least the first 20 minutes. After that, Nigel produced a mini Magnum from his coat pocket and that kept me quiet at least until the interval.
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