Wow! What a favour to pull in. Although, I don't think Jarvis' Mum has tended to do that kind of thing very much before, has she? Fair play to her! I'm sure Felix enjoyed his day, too...

I heard he encored with Back in LA and Running the World.

Very arguably! It wasn't even the biggest song of the week when it was released!

I do think though, that that week's number one - Unchained Melody/White Cliffs of Dover definitely stands more chance of being played in a Jubillee scenario than Common People.

But yes, huge swathes of pop heritage were left untouched. Nothing from mid 80s to late 90s really. Unless you count Elton John.

Stephen wrote:

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Very arguably! It wasn't even the biggest song of the week when it was released!

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 Well, considering that there isn't a person I know who doesn't recognise the tune at least I'd argue that it is very much well known.

Stephen wrote:

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I heard he encored with Back in LA and Running the World.

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 Haha, made me crack a smile, Stephen :)

So does anyone know what he really played? And don't say This is Hardcore and My Erection! I'm gonna guess Something Changed, Big Julie (lyrics changed to Elizabeth) and Help The Aged.

 

 

 

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I'd hardly say Party Hard is family friendly, "he just shot his load on your best party frock". I'm rather surprised Pulp didn't do the jubilee concert in London considering that Common People is arguably one of the biggest songs of Her Majesty's reign.

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The article only said that he sang Common People.

Also managed to avoid it. I've heard a lot of people slagging off Paul McCartney since, though. Was he really that bad, or is it just people who've never heard a concert before and/or still expected him to be about 30 years old or something?

Saw a bit of the boats, too. But spent most of the time setting home in New House.

Oh yes, around the time of the boats (or was it something else?) David Starkey was being interviewed by Philip Schofield and a royalistically sycophantic female presented. She was banging on about how reforming and forward thinking the Queen is and mentioned that the Queen had 'pushed for' the 1953 Coronation to be televised. Starkey replied that this wasn't the case at all, and the Queen had actually been against the televising.

"Well, I'm being told two different stories!" flustered said presented.

"I'm not sure what the Palace is telling you and what their agenda is," replied Starkey, "but they are the Palace and I am an historian".

I enjoyed that bit. I have paraphrased this. Probably quite liberally.

I'm not a raging royalist but I think that it's quite amazing how the royal family can seemingly unite everyone (except for republicans) in Britain - how can that be a bad thing even if it was a bit extravagant. I personally enjoyed the atmosphere and everything but then again all I saw of it was the recap on the news so maybe I can't really talk.

Bumping this thread as footage from Carltonbury has surfaced.

There's a couple of other vids as well from the same set, snippets of Babies and Sorted.

See he's still got the high heels, the patter and the customisation of Sorted for the audience. Would've been fun if it had got to the "Mother, I can never come home" bit and pan round the crowd to find his num.