Mad about Abba: Princess Diana Photograph: John Stillwell/PA
I'm pretty excited about this weekend's Concert For Diana - it's a fitting tribute to someone so well known for her passionate love of music. Verily, the people's princess was the regal John Peel.
But I can't help feeling they've got the lineup a bit skewiff. I blame the children. Apart from Duran Duran and Elton John, many acts look more like William and Harry's choices. Hence "top fillies" like Joss Stone and Natasha Bedingfield. And I bet P Diddy and Kanye West are big at Boujis.
How about hearing some of the songs that soundtracked Diana's life instead? When she began stepping out with Prince Charles in July 1980, Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart had just hit the charts. When they got married in July 1981, the nation celebrated by putting The Specials' Ghost Town at number one. And when they separated, Whitney was wailing I Will Always Love You.
Surely there should be more of the acts Diana actually adored? We know about these from Scotland Yard's list of her personal effects that butler Paul Burrell took "for safekeeping" after her death. There were a heck of a lot of photographs and handbags ("187: Ladies' black cloth bag, yellow metal chain (Harrods), chewing gum and 2p piece"), but also 50 records.
On vinyl, there were the guilty pleasures of her 70s youth: Neil Diamond, Supertramp, Leo Sayer, Abba and The War of the Worlds. Tellingly, the divorce-court pop of Sweden's fabber four appears to be her only enduring musical love: she owned Abba - the Album on vinyl and The Singles on CD.
The CDs contain a lot of stuff that was - inexplicably - acceptable in the 80s: Tina Turner, Phil Collins, Simply Red and Michael Jackson's Bad - yes, the one with Dirty Diana on it! Now, Jacko really should be at Wembley. Diana's interview with Martin Bashir inspired Michael to do his one - only that didn't work out quite so well.
I hope Kylie is going to be there, too, for similar reasons. Her album Impossible Princess was pulled on taste grounds in the wake of Diana's death - as was the single Summer Smash by Denim. Why can't Lawrence do a few numbers? How would Tampax Advert and Glue & Smack go down?
Obviously, we're all hoping Elton John will perform Candle In The Wind 1997 just one more time. But how about hearing that other equally touching tribute - the one David Brent sang in The Office? ("You helped the sick ... but who helped you...?") And forget about the Spice Girls, let's get the Smiths to reform and play The Queen Is Dead in its entirety! Surely everyone knows that this was a conspiracy theory concept album where Morrissey chillingly foresaw many details of her death?
Anyway, see you all at Wembley. They've got me doing the hotdog stall again ...
