ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
Elton John's wonderfully idiosyncratic British farewell
Elton John performing at Vicarage Road Stadium
[Ben Gibson] 
ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it
JOE GILL wholeheartedly recommends an eloquent manifesto: how to change the world one local project at a time
Inspired by a photograph, a unique memorial in Michigan immortalises US true labour heroes. MICHAL BONCZA recalls a great story rarely told
MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism
Elton John
Vicarage Road Stadium, Watford
ON THE walls of a flat next to the Vicarage Road Stadium, a tenant had draped a banner saying “Welcome home Elton.” The green, green grass of the stadium may have been covered in protective material to accommodate the near 30,000 crowd, but they’d all come to meet him, and the homecoming was one to match any that has gone before.
It was a wonderfully idiosyncratic British farewell, garlanded by an eclectic audience of all ages and dispositions, including a sizeable element of noisy Watford fans, there to pay tribute to the man who has transformed their football club.
More from this author
PETER MASON relishes a legend of Jamaican roots reggae still plying his trade with a large degree of spirit
PETER MASON is wowed (and a little baffled) by the undeniably ballet-like grace of flamenco
PETER MASON is surprised by the bleak outlook foreseen for cricket’s future by the cricketers’ bible
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
