Party at the Palace
Party at the Palace was a pop - and rock - concert , which on 3 June 2002 to mark the Golden Jubilee (Golden Jubilee) of Elizabeth II. Took place. The venue was the garden of Buckingham Palace in London . The concert marked the end of the Golden Jubilee Weekend , the main celebrations of the anniversary.
Contributors
Participants in the Party at the Palace included:
Paul McCartney , Bryan Adams , Keith Airey , Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen , Atomic Kitten , Shirley Bassey , Tony Bennett , Blue , Emma Bunton , Eric Clapton , The Corrs , Joe Cocker , Phil Collins , Ray Cooper , Ray Davies , Tony Iommi , Elton John , Tom Jones , Ladysmith Black Mambazo , Annie Lennox , Ricky Martin , Ozzy Osbourne , Mis-teeq , Cliff Richard , S Club 7 , Rod Stewart , Will Young , Belinda Carlisle , Brian Wilson , Steve Winwood , Tony Vincent , Hannah Jane Fox . The London cast of the musicals Mamma Mia! and We Will Rock You .
The concert
The Party at the Palace was touted in the media as the biggest concert in Britain since Live Aid . The 12,000 tickets had been raffled off in a lottery in which several million interested people took part. At The Mall and around the Victoria Memorial, another million people watched the concert on big screens. There were also around 200 million TV viewers around the world. The first part of the concert was reserved for pop music, the second for rock music. In between the individual musical performances there were short comedy segments by Lenny Henry , Ben Elton , Meera Syal , Nina Wadia , Ruby Wax and Dame Edna Everage .
The concert began with a performance by Queen guitarist Brian May , who stood on the roof of Buckingham Palace and played the national anthem God Save the Queen as a guitar solo on his Red Special . The "house band" that accompanied almost all of the performers included a. Pino Palladino (bass), Phil Collins (drums), Phil Palmer (guitar) and Ray Cooper (percussion). Other musicians came from the symphony orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music . Producers were George Martin , Michael Kamen and Phil Ramone . In addition to playing the drums, Collins sang his own song You Can't Hurry Love . The Queen song Radio Ga Ga was sung by Roger Taylor . The appearance of S Club 7 was the last in the original line-up with seven members, as Paul Cattermole had announced before the concert that he would be leaving the group.
After the concert, the royal family went on stage to meet the stars. Prince Charles thanked his mother for her fifty years on the throne. His acceptance speech he began to pleasure of the audience and to the confusion of the queen with the famously "Your Majesty ... Mummy!" (Your Majesty ... Mom!) Then lit the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh a bonfire on The Mall. The evening and the Golden Jubilee Weekend as a whole ended with the largest fireworks display that had taken place in London up to then. Meanwhile, various symbols were projected onto the walls of Buckingham Palace, including the Union Flag .
The recording of the concert was later published on CD , the television pictures on DVD . In the former, individual sequences were cut out, for example the monologue by Ruby Wax, Paul McCartney's announcement by Dame Edna and McCartney's spontaneous performance of Her Majesty .
More concerts
Two days earlier, on June 1st, the Prom at the Palace , a classical concert , had also taken place at the same location . On the occasion of the diamond jubilee ten years later, there was another concert on the square in front of Buckingham Palace, the Diamond Jubilee Concert .
Web links
- BBC report about the concert (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Party at the Palace in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on September 20, 2013.
- ↑ 50 facts about The Queen's Golden Jubilee. British Royalty, accessed September 20, 2013 .
- ↑ In Pictures: Stars rock the Palace: Brian May. BBC News , June 4, 2002, accessed September 20, 2013 .
- ^ Party at the Palace. Discogs, accessed September 20, 2013 .
- ^ The S Club get back to work. British Broadcasting Corporation , June 30, 2002, accessed September 20, 2013 .
- ^ Charles tribute speech in full. BBC News , June 4, 2002, accessed September 20, 2013 .