Party at the Palace

Party at the Palace was a pop and rock concert on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee ( Golden Jubilee) of Queen Elizabeth II took place on 3 June 2002. 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

Among the participants at 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. Also making an appearance were the London occupations of the musical Mamma Mia! and We Will Rock You.

The concert

The Party at the Palace was touted in the media as the greatest concert in Britain since Live Aid. The 12,000 tickets were raffled off in a lottery, in which millions of interested people had participated. On The Mall and around the Victoria Memorial looked another million visitors to the concert on big screens. In addition, approximately 200 million television viewers were added around the world. The first part of the concert was the subject of popular music, the second of rock music. Between the musical performances, there was a 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 the Queen guitarist Brian May, who played standing on the roof of Buckingham Palace on his Red Special the national anthem God Save the Queen as a guitar solo. For the " house band " that accompanied almost all artists were for example 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. Collins played not only drums, but also sang his own song You Can not 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 cast of seven members, as Paul Cattermole had announced before the concert, to leave the group.

After the concert the royal family went on the stage to the assembled stars. Prince Charles thanked his mother for those fifty years on the throne. His acceptance speech, he began to pleasure of the audience and to the confusion of the queen with the famous saying "Your Majesty ... Mummy! " ( Your Majesty ... Mommy! ) Then inflamed the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh a bonfire on The Mall. The evening and the Golden Jubilee Weekend total was the largest fireworks display that had occurred up to that point in London. Meanwhile, different symbols were projected onto the walls of Buckingham Palace, including the Union Flag.

The recording of the concert was later released on CD, the television images on DVD. In the former, individual sequences was excised, for example, the monologue of Ruby Wax, the announcement of Paul McCartney by Dame Edna and McCartney's spontaneous demonstration of Her Majesty.

More Concerts

Two days earlier, on June 1, had also the same place the Prom at the Palace took place, a classical concert. On the occasion of diamentenen Jubilee ten years later there were in the square in front of Buckingham Palace again a concert, the Diamond Jubilee Concert.