"And now, Status Quo, George Michael and Michael Ball will join Sir Elton for Candle In The Wind..."

We know that the end of next summer is going to be a pretty grim time all round, as the Daily Express marks ten years since the British state somehow silenced Diana Spencer heavily pregnant with sixteen Muslim children by using eye-burning lasers and a decoy drunken, drugged pisspoor driver.

The decade since everyone went a bit doolally is going to be harder for some than others - a lot of people are going to have to try and explain why, precisely, they thought it worthwhile to spend their time travelling down to London to put clingfilm wrapped roses on a pile of decaying vegetation visible from space to mark the fact that even the very rich don't wear their seatbelts.

But now, it looks like it might be a misery for all of us - the delightful, piano-playing princes are all grown up now, and they've decided the best way to mark ten years since their mother had a fatal road traffic accident is to throw a car-crash of a live pop event.

Nothing has been confirmed yet, but the usual names are being trotted out - George Michael, Kylie, Elton John - and Microsoft have already announced that Word 2007 will feature a shortcut allowing journalists to add the phrase "the largest pop concert in London since Live8, two years ago" to their copy with a single keystroke.

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