You must be well under 40 years old. At some point (maybe when he sobered up) Elton John somehow completed the strangest, most dramatic transition from being a paragon of coolness to a total pantload in the history of pop culture.

You could say Harrison Ford is sullying his former image of coolness by wearing an earring (WTF? is he trying to look like a dweeb?) and running around with that garish stick figure Calista Flockhart. And you could certainly say that George Lucas went from cool to super-fool when he introduced us to Jar Jar Binks and the rest of that hot mess of a so-called film.

Fine. That doesn't even come close to the self-annihilation accomplished by "Sir" Elton John. Elton's fall is more comparable to the rapid disintegration of a once great civilization (think Apocalypto).

I'm half-inclined to believe he may have actually been killed and replaced with some kind of dorkface double, a la Paul McCartney.

Interestingly, both Elton John and Paul McCartney accepted "knighthood" from the Queen nazi-lizard ... an "honor" that marks one as a supreme "sell out" to all that is good and decent in humaity.