Tuesday January 15th 2002

Terrible Things Done In The Name of Charity, Part #1468: The sleeve of the newly released “My Sweet Lord”

My jaw dropped and my stomach turned. It’s exactly the same design as “Candle In The Wind 1997”.

Except, instead of a rose, it’s a Hare Krishna lotus flower. The People’s Beatle.

“A spokesman for EMI said the company had decided to delay the release until early 2002 in the name of good taste.’It takes time to get a record out,’ the spokesman said. ‘Rushing it out in time for Christmas could have been seen as bad taste.’ ”

As Mr Fry once memorably remarked, sometimes there really is not enough vomit in the world.