04/06/2012 The One Show

Tonight, The One Show is coming alive from the Diamond Jubilee

concert. In one hour here on BBC One, we will be joined by Sir Paul

McCartney, Elton John, Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams. Very shortly those

names will be stepping out onto a stage in front of Buckingham Palace

to a worldwide audience. Welcome to our One Show Diamond Jubilee

special. Hello and welcome to The One Show.

You cannot have a party without some great food so we have invited

our favourite chef to come along, it is Heston. Keep it simple, we

only need cucumber sandwiches. are the Military Wives, they have

joined us. You have done a fantastic job with the decorations.

And you look gorgeous! We have also got Sir Elton John, Kylie Minogue

and Stevie Wonder. It is all happening aboard are fabulous bus

and let me tell you, we have the best driver. We're all going on a

summer holiday, no more work used - there were these for a week or two.

No more worries for me or you. Cliff is not the only guest on

board. By royal appointment, it is this evening's ring master, Gary

Barlow and Sir Paul McCartney. to see you! We know it is a busy

night for the view. We must say it is a bit sad that the Duke of

Edinburgh has been taken to hospital but the Palace have

decided to go ahead with the evening. Have you heard that news?

It is such a shame, really sad. might have been a bit much for him

yesterday. I was called are just watching it on television, it was a

rotten day. Her Majesty stood for the whole day, she must have been

freezing. We do wish him all the best. A few months ago, we were in

the Palace talking about this thing and it is finally here. I cannot

believe it and it is massive. It was two years ago that we started

to plan this concert and the crazy idea came up within an hour of the

saying let's have the stage of a bear and when I got here and there

has denied and so the stage set up, I couldn't believe it. It also

shows, because I saw Sir Paul McCartney was no band, even they

are really excited. Backstage here, are just seeing each other and

there is a lovely feeling. exciting. It is not in the back

garden because the last time, I was in the line-up with Her Majesty and

I said, will we be doing this next year? She said, not in my back

garden! How did you get involved? Gary Barlow came and saw me for

this one and I had done something for him before. They knew each

other. The meetings agger of this are always fun because he does this

thing where he goes, what you want me to sing? Beacons of but the

songs, what you say? He just asked me and we talked about what songs.

I refused to do everything he suggested! It was great. I like

that. Are you have happy to stick around for a bit on the bass. It

would be great if you could hang around. Absolutely. We have some

pictures here. The streets are filling up. These are people who

are not even invited, there are just turning up to look at the big

screens. These are scenes happening right across the country and we

think Lucy is just outside Buckingham Palace. I am at the top

of constitution Hill, it is so exciting here. The atmosphere is

really building. The 10,000 people who are lucky enough to have seats

for the concert tonight are filing in and taking their seats. The

atmosphere is incredible, some of them are so keen that they can

doubt last night in that weather. Some have been here from early this

morning. I also got here very early this morning and walked up

Constitution Hill and I heard Stevie Wonder and Sir Paul

McCartney or doing at sound check - amazing. Tonight's concert is going

to the epic. That is quite a scene, isn't it? Either going to the

images projected on the stage? get darkness at 9:15pm and at that

point, the project on to the palace and there is even someone

performing on top of the Palace later. We're going to ask you about

that later. Have you seen much of the Queen on the last few days?

TV, yes. I ran into her at the Royal Academy and it's always his

amazing seeing her because in person, she is just so incredible.

I said that when she took the throne, I was 10 years old so why

was a kid and very impressionable. I just love to her. This idea that

we were going to have a woman as our monarch, very impressive for me

and then when you see the films that Charles has been showing and

you see it being so humanised with the kids. I loved seeing Charles

giggling, I think it is great because people sometimes think the

monarchy is a bit distant and you realise, as I did as a 10 year-old,

they are just good people. As a 10 year-old, did you think you would

be performing at the Diamond Jubilee concert? I never thought I

would later, certainly, and never thought there would be performing

for her. She is great. It is not just at Buckingham Palace where

excitement is building. People are gathering in the centre of Swansea

as well. There are 20 towns and cities with these big screens

transmitting the Queen's Jubilee concert and also at The One Show

tonight. I have come to Swansea where we are attempting something

slightly different, seeing if we can break the record for the

biggest royal Mexican wave so we're practising here. If you live near

here, this is the place to be, get yourself down here!

Screens all over the UK. This has to be one of the biggest audiences

that you have ever played? The have started to worry as a now! Windows

that moment, when you think, I am here to do a job? For me, it was

the sound check this morning, when I saw the stage and I hadn't seen

the set-up, it was very impressive and you're standing there, looking

down at the mall, which is only half full. Then you start thinking,

it is going to be Phil. We were speaking to Sir Cliff Richard and

he even said, I will start feeling nervous even though it is great

seeing friends and catching up with people, the moment before you go on

stage, you cannot help get butterflies. 50 minutes and 50

seconds to go! You are really worryingly! We want to know how you

are preparing for the concert so take a picture of yourself whether

you are and send them to us. will get those shown later on. The

Queen has been touching lives of people since the start of her reign.

Those 60 years ago at the time, the Queen's succession to the throne

created unforgettable memories. It was an early 1952 when the young 24

year-old Princess received word of the death of her father, King

George VI. What do you memories of her visit to Kenya? I was about

four years old. I said to my brother, I cannot see her, I cannot

see her, so he picked me up and put meat on his shoulders. For a little

girl to see a real princess was something very special and I will

cherish that memory. She came to Kenya, a princess, and she is going

back as a queen. Charles and William have been prepared for it

but she wasn't because she suddenly found herself with that enormous

responsibility. On the 2nd June 1953, the Golden Stagecoach made

its way to Westminster Abbey for the Queen to be crowned. I was in

the Royal Marines. On the Coronation Day, I was about here on

the Embankment. We had hundreds and hundreds of children behind us and

one of these little boys filled up a bottle of lemonade and put a

straw in it. I could not hear a single word of audience. I cannot

imagine another day when the atmosphere was greater. Over 3

million spectators gathered on the streets of London. The coronation

was an unmissable experience that united the country. I was wearing a

paper skirt and the colour in it ran down my legs. I was five years

old, sitting there on the pavement with red, white and blue legs,

waving to the Queen! Around 27 million Britons, three quarters of

the population at the time, gathered in the homes of friends

and neighbours to watch the live coverage. The only person in the

street with a television invited the whole street to come to his

house to watch. I had the mumps and for people came to my house and

lifted the bed and everything down and put me in front of the

television so I had the best picture! This is me in the corner,

I was 21 and this is Jack he was eight. We all felt we had been

transported into the Abbey, we felt really privileged. We all stood up

and we sang God Save the Queen and it was absolutely wonderful. She

promised to serve this country and she has done it really very, very

well and we should all look after her and be thankful.

We have moved outsider to the garden. What you think? It is just

like a garden! Upstairs you touched on your memory is as a boy of the

Queen but you would have been about 10 in 1953. We know that you were

10 because we have some homework here. From a young Paul McCartney

he is 10 years old and 10 months. What is the story behind this?

you remember? There was a competition for all the schools and

you had to write about the Coronation or the monarchy. That

was my entry. They won a prize for that. The lord mayor of London gave

me about! This is brilliant. Look at my neat handwriting. Gary, you

won't remember the coronation but you remember at the Silver Jubilee?

I think we have a little picture of you living very cute as a young boy.

It was great, I remembered that will Street having a party in the

garden and it brought the whole neighbourhood together, as it will

do today. You can see the whole of England waving flags and that is

brilliant. Last night you said, I was up against the railings and I

never imagined I would be on the other side. Look at what you have

done! It has been amazing. didn't give us any hints as to what

would be on Europe set list, when there be a singalong because you

are closing the show. There is a little bit of a singalong. We don't

have long on the show but there is little sing along. I am going to

ask the audience to join in on one little bit. There will be some

Bangs, I can't think what number that will be on Lexmark they're

going to have fun. I think it would go all the way around the UK! What

are you going to be doing? I am doing at Gillette. Then we are

coming back and doing the record, Sing, which is the Diamond Jubilee

single. The girls much be so excited, they are over there.

have about 30 people from the Commonwealth, the African

Children's Choir are here and they were just loving being here, they

cannot believe it. They are living the rain. You have met royalty so

many times, it must be wonderful I have been lucky, since the early

days of the Beatles, I have met royalty a few times. I never

thought I would meet them as a kid. Was that your phone?! Yes. But for

me it was the human aspect that you never realise because we always see

them on stamps and money. The first time I met the Queen I was in a

line-up and she lives at Windsor and said where you playing tomorrow

night? I said we are playing at Slough, just outside Windsor. She

said that's just Maras! You would not expect her to say that! -- near

I've always found her to be Berry nice and warm. She came and opened

by performing arts academy and I asked her the other night if she

remembered it, she did. She is all there. It is going to be a big

month for you because of this and later in the month you are

celebrating a big birthday. Any plans? Family. I like family's --

birthdays with the family. A which birthday? 70! You should just have

a huge concert in your garden. is one way to go. I will go for the

small thing. Have a good time tonight. How long until the

concert? 42 minutes. The 10,000 lucky guests have their invites

through the ballot and are going to their seats from the royal picnic

on what is already a day they will never forget. We went to make sure

they have a picture memory of this Diamond Jubilee. It is the garden

at Buckingham Palace. All the marquees are said, the picnics are

ready to be picked up and the steel All we need now is 10,000 people!

The least I can do is help hand out the food and give people something

to remember the day by. Nice to meet you. Let's get you with

Buckingham Palace in the background. Somehow I have become the Jubilee

official photographer for the public. I will take a picture on

your picnic blanket. I never imagined I would ever be here.

is it like? It is crazy. I unreal. -- and real. Nice to meet you. I

like that you managed to get to the champagne tent so early. He looks

like he is about to propose. I have the ring of the same as Kate

Middleton. Mine is new. Smile, you It will certainly be a day to

remember. We are going to play a game, guess the guest by the noise

I am still standing... Sir Elton John! We're will come. -- welcome.

We are glad you made it because you have not been well. I had pneumonia

a couple of weeks ago in Los Angeles and had to be rushed to

hospital because I could not breathe. They put me on antibiotics,

gave me oxygen and I had done three shows this week. How is your voice?

No problem, just the breathing and lungs. We were hearing from Sir

Cliff Richard this afternoon that you hosted a party, a pre- jubilee

concert party. We had a tea at a hotel up the road so my little boy

could come to release part of the festivities because he's too young

to come to the show. But when he gets older we can say you were at

the Jubilee, you just went for the tea. Who is looking after him?

nanny. Cliff was there, Jessie J, Ed Sheeran, Annie Lennox, Kylie

Minogue, David Walliams. A lot of people. Did you have food? No, we

can't afford that! You had been doing the catering for these

picnics, haven't you? A small number, 12,500 of them. We met

earlier and you said you walk round the outside and could not believe

it. If you write down 12,500 it looks quite a big number. But

driving round the perimeter of the palace and seeing the queue of

people, thinking every one of those will be needing a hamper, -- a

hamper. You have created this amazing picnic box. How did you

Mark, the head chef of the palace, helped. We wanted to showcase

British produce and also have a time in history, to celebrate 60

years of the Queen. Coronation chicken was created for the moment

she became Queen. So we played about with that, we have the

strawberry dessert, a bit like it strawberry but with yoghurt and

cream mixed in, rosewater, elderflower, biscuits, Moran,

popping candy on the top and some of the strawberries come from

Sandringham. -- Miranda. A no smoked salmon? There is. She does

If you are peckish there is a spare one behind you there. Adjust

quickly... We did this for Princess Eugenie's birth to a couple of

months ago. -- birthday. Edible candles, right? We did a whole

So just breakage. -- break it. Chocolate and caramel and passion

fruit. Mind your trousers! In there... Is that chocolate?

People will be watching the big screens but surely you can give

them a close at you because you are off on tour. I did Taunton last

night which was freezing. The audience were frozen, bless them.

Harrogate tomorrow, then Belfast, Chesterfield, Folkert, Birmingham,

Newcastle, Blackpool. The such an amazing back-catalogue to choose

from for tonight, how do you choose your set list for a night like

tonight? I did not choose them tonight, somebody else did, which

is OK. It would have been so difficult to choose. Crocodile Rock,

your son, I'm still standing and hopefully we will lighted up with a

like a karaoke machine. Are you doing classics? A mixture of both.

You must feel at home because you know the Queen. We have met many

times and she is a very funny, brilliant woman. I have a lot of

great stories that I will cherish until I take them to my grave. She

is wonderful. Will any of these stories possibly feature in this

film that is rumoured to be about your life coming out? I don't know

with any stories will end up in the film. But there will be a book of

my life at some stage and they may end up in that. So you will not

tell us if there is a film? cannot say. You are going in the

royal box. If George Michael did not go on tour, you could go on

tour for him. You could just lip synch. He looks so much like him.

When he first step down I thought he had turned into George Michael!

Are you happy with that? The kind of. Apart from not being able to

Sing. So you are going to the royal box. You probably need to go and

prepare. You should see the size of my box in there, a shoe box! Have

you got a big dressing room? They are all the same size. The dogs

have good agreements! Jacuzzi? Come on then! Thank you both. Tonight is

not just about the music. Across the Commonwealth a special

tradition will shine many a light This is a fort on Hadrian's Wall,

this was the northern edge of the Roman Empire. It was a wild place

and the wall was designed to repel raiders from the warlike tribes

from across the border. The Romans, based in forts like this along the

length of the wall, needed a way to communicate with each other. They

had the ideal system - fire. Beacons of -- beacons are quick and

easy warning signs, they continue to be used as a military tools for

hundreds of years -- they continued. When Philip the second of Spain

that launched his armada against the England of our first Queen

Elizabeth, it was a series of beacons round the country that

warned of the invasion fleet's arrival. By the 20th century the

beacon had lost its importance. Electronic communications to go

there, from the Morse code machine to walkie-talkies and field radios.

These instant forms of communication, much more reliable,

sooner signed the beacon to the annals of military history. In

civilian life beacons live on, but now they have a ceremonial rather

than military use. Bruno Pique revels in the title of pageant

master. -- Bruno Pique. He has been organising events for more than a

quarter of a century, continuing a fine tradition. Queen Victoria had

her beacons lit for her diamond jubilee and some of those are

massive, up to 50 ft high. Some people would Thatch them. They are

massive structures. What have we done since then? Then we go back

into the millennium, when we let them all across countries across

the world. 2005, the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, that was

the first time the Royal Family ever came together and lit beacons

together. The Queen met the one in Portsmouth. The Prince of Wales did

Scotland. The Earl of Wessex did kill a castle in Northern Ireland,

the Princess Royal was Wales and the Duke of York was in Greenwich.

So why believe they have had fun doing it as well. The beacons can

be a wonderful sight. You can see why they are used for national

celebrations. Whether it be for coronations, weddings, or major

events, they help make an occasion really special. Hadrian's Wall is

one of thousands of sites which will be led by beacons to celebrate

the jubilee and today the volunteers are staging a trial run.

You will not burn your hands there. Linda is helping organise the

beacons there will be set a -- set up along Hadrian's Wall. What will

happen on the night? Right the way across Hadrian's Wall communities

will light beacons, 60, one for every year of the Queen's reign,

Why did you want be involved as an organisation? To be asked by the

pageant master if we would participate and illuminate the wall

was really a great honour for us and we were really excited to be

able to ask our communities all the way across the wall if they would

help us realise this brilliant event and be part of the whole

What an amazing experience, to be standing here, about 600 ft up in

the Northumberland hills right on the line of Hadrian's Wall in a

fortress built about 2000 years ago with beacons lighting the walls. It

must have been very similar to this. Extraordinary. It has been a

brilliant night on this ancient Roman Frontier and a tiny local

taste of what The National It is going to be the most amazing

spectacle. The Queen will be lighting the last of those 4000

beacons from the stage here tonight. Sir Elton John is still with us. My

favourite musical of all time is Billy Elliott, it means so much to

me. It means a lot to me and it has been a big part of my life for the

last few years. We celebrated hour seven years last week and 3000

performances. I went to see it again with an you cast and each

time I see it, I have to say it just gets to me all the time.

are some interesting photos as well, a wonderful celebration. There it

is! Took us through what is going on here. The kids were dying to put

their faces in the cake. I escaped. We have a wonderful cake, you will

not believe that that is the cake. It is a fruit cake. The Crown is

made of sugar. We will not to let you near that one! You are writing

a musical? I am hopefully going to write a new one with the man who

wrote Billy Elliott and we're talking about writing a completely

different kind of musical. This one is based on George Orwell's Animal

Farm. We are going through the lyrics and deciding which way we

are going to go with it. It is a very difficult thing to write and

make into a musical but that is the challenge. I have been asked to

write a lot of musicals because they are too easy. Completely

different from Billy Elliott. in the north-east and you cannot go

wrong! Shall go back to Lacey hears with the crowds?

I am with some very lucky concert- goers, these people have tickets.

Are you excited? Very excited. did you get your tickets? I just

got the new laptop and I am all new to the internet, I applied for it

and I won them on my but the! Double lucky. You have made quite a

holiday of this? We travelled down to London on Saturday morning from

Warrington and we are going back on Tuesday evening. What was the best

part of the picnic? The champagne. You are from South Wales. Who are

you looking forward to seeing tonight? I think Cliff Richard.

of course Sir Elton John, could you do us a favour, we are going to

have a quick best dressed competition will stop can you tell

us who is the winner? Samantha, then Margaret. And not forgetting

Dave. It is Samantha! She is the winner. Anything to say to Sir

Elton John? I love you, I always have. We have just had a flash of

your socks, it says Super and star or! Everybody is wondering what

they would do if they were a king or queen for a day. What would you

do? What roles would you implement? That is a tough one. I would ban

things, I would ban coaches from the West End. Here are some of your

If I was Queen, I would have a national dog day at work. I would

have dinner with Beyonce, the pop star, amazing. I would be hit my

wife. I am only joking! If I Was King for the day, Manchester City

would be stripped of all their money and Manchester United would

be stripped of all their luck and Arsenal were the top of the league.

If I was Queen for the day, I would go to Thorpe Park. If I was king, I

would move all Trafford to the shores of Carrickfergus and there

should be a place where we can bring the dog along. I would make a

lot that everyone would have to laugh at least once a day because I

think there is not enough happiness in the world. If I working for the

day, I would reintroduce the death penalty. I would help people stop

smoking, keep hospitals clean and the doctors clean and keep

everybody looking smart when they go to school. If I was king, I

would have no big mansion made out of marble with Grecian statues of

myself or stop people with no manners would all be imprisoned.

would alleviate world hunger, end poverty. I would like for Scotland

to qualify for the World Cup. was Queen for the day, I would make

sure everyone had �1 million, and nobody would pay taxes and

everybody would have a ball. If I was king, I would ban health and

safety and let all the adults climb trees and catch insects. Probably

drive around the country, pick up the poor people and give them a bat.

I would abolish all yellow lines so we could park anywhere. I would

take all the people of the dole and put them in charge of the old

people, looking after them. I would be married to a footballer for a

day, that his colt! David Beckham is my husband!

90 for all that was as you are sending in will stop this is

Victoria, aged 10. Here are Emma and her friends representing

Australia and Canada. We're having our own party for the Queen, this

is Sarah from East Belfast. This is the cute one, this is Isabella

enjoying the Jubilee, aged just 10 weeks. This is a party in Spain.

Here are the girls, Sophie and the girls from Worcestershire

celebrating the Jubilee and they say we love the Queen will stop

this is a family in Huddersfield, they look quite familiar! Shelley

play another game of who is the guest? Who on earth could that be?

It is only Kylie Minogue! Lovely to see you. Did you like that? He is

very good at the Trombert. How are you feeling ahead of the big night?

Oh, that is the sunshine. It is very exciting. It is such a funny

atmosphere because stars keep bumping into each other will stop

the are stories aplenty. Down from my dressing room is Sir, So, Dame.

The is it even daunting for you? Right now, I feel OK but the closer

any of us get to that central stage, it will be amazing. Nothing has

been confirmed but in the papers it says Robbie Williams will open. Are

you relieved you are not opening the concert, would that be too

much? That might be too much! The spirit is just wonderful. What are

you going to do? I am doing a little or medley. I have also

invited a dance group to perform with me. You are celebrating your

own silver jubilee because it is 25 years of Kylie Minogue in a pub?

have called this year K 25 and there is lots going on. It has been

a fabulous year for me. You have an OBE he as well so you feel you're

giving something back to the Queen? I hope she is going to enjoy it.

How big a the Jubilee celebrations back in Australia? I have had lots

of text messages and e-mails from friends and family who are all

going to be watching and it seems like they are very excited, too. It

is hard to express to them being here, it is just that the spirit is

so nice were ever you go. There are only 18 minutes before the start.

You'll be fine but I have to ask, there are rumours that you and

Jason Donovan will reunite over the summer at another concert in Hyde

Park? You are one of the people who are most happy about that? Alex,

you had a picture of Jason Donovan on your wall as a child. Yes, I did.

Yes, that is actually happening and I think it will be a bizarre moment

but a beautiful one. It it is going to make people's dreams come true.

We can hear the warm-up acts onstage at the moment. It is

gorgeous and the sun looks like it is going to stay. It is beautiful.

Do you know where you are within the running order? Actually, I

don't. I should know these things but there is so much information

and scheduling at it again that I am just going where they tell me,

when they tell me. I think I am about halfway through. You have had

a busy few weeks because you are fresh back from Cannes, permitting

your new film there and we saw club earlier and it is so different from

the Kylie Minogue we're used to. absolutely loved doing it. Let's

It is quite different. It was an amazing experience, the director

was just revered and people love him. It is so nice to step out of

what I have become so accustomed to doing and go back to what I started

out doing it with a fresh challenge. You are going to be singing a

little bit more up-tempo tonight? We have Dame Shirley Bassey

performing and lots of people have been around the block numerous

times, do you think you will be celebrating your Diamond Jubilee,

still here in 25 years? Oh, gosh, who knows? People like that, like

Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Cliff Richard, they just show that it can

be done and it is what you do and what you love doing and people want

more of it, he who knows, we will see? We certainly hope you will be

here in 25 years and have a brilliant evening will stop it is

incredible, the guests we are getting tonight. Time to go back to

carry in Swansea. Welcome to Swansea where we are

having a fantastic time in one at the 20 screens across the UK that

is transmitting the concert and of course The One Show. We are excited

about the Welsh contingent, tonight there is Tom Jones, Dame Shirley

Bassey and Rob Brydon presenting and there is a real party

atmosphere. Yesterday most of the guys here had their street parties

but they have not let go of the party atmosphere tonight. Who are

you looking forward to? Jessie J, the concert is going to be

brilliant. Wasn't she amazing on the Voice? We love her. I cannot

wait to see Take That, I am a massive fan of Gary Barlow. Gary

Barlow, we salute you, what at champion. Sir Tom Jones. What a

great voice? I love the Welsh voice. We also have somebody is here.

Let's wish them a happy birthday. You would think that was the

weirdest costume in Wales, it is the weirdest costumes in the whole

of Britain today. Now it is time for our Royal Mexican wave. We have

been practising and we really want That was quite good. The last world

record was a Mexican wave, something like 2 million people but

we managed about 100, but it was a royal wave. That means it is a

A royal wave from Kylie, who has decided to stay longer. You was is

good. I saw the Queen doing it yesterday. That must be tiring

after a while. Amazing. Do you want to read that had? Lee dr Daniels,

aged three, ready to dance and Sing with her own microphone in

Derbyshire. Queen Megan here watching the show with her corgi in

Winchester. Can we go live to the Mall one more time? This has been

sent in from Tom and Cameron Hillah down there as we speak. That is a

photo and a half! We also have a Pick one out and read it. Is this

to you? If you were Queen what would your most unreasonable oil

demand be? I don't know! That is a tough one. A really tough. --

really tough. Sorry, I don't know what I would do. A maybe to wear

warmer clothes for the concert? said it was cold. Maybe to be able

to wear a more sensible heel. salute you. Very unreasonable!

excitement is kicking in now and in a few minutes we will have live

pictures of the royal family as they take their seats in the Royal

Box, ready for Robbie Williams to open the concert. Under 12 minutes

to go. In 1953 a different type of music was ringing in the years of

Her Majesty. She took her steps on The coronation of George VI. Queen

Elizabeth's coronation. And William and Kate's wedding. Wright were

occasions celebrated by millions but they would not have been quite

the same if it had not been for a bloke from Oldham. Born in 1902,

William Walton is famous for his Royal March, Crown Imperial. But he

grew up in order near Manchester. With smoke from 270 cotton mills

shrouding the sky, he seemed destined for an unremarkable life

until his father read that Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford was

auditioning for choirboys. Getting a place at a cathedral choir school

like this is the ecclesiastical equivalent of joining the Beatles,

isn't it? Absolut. In nearly did not happen because Walton's father

went on a pub crawl the night before he was supposed to come for

his audition and drank all the train fare way. Mother had to

borrow the money from the local greengrocer, they finally got down

here for the trials and missed them but fortunately they agreed to hear

him and he got in. So had it not been for that train fare, English

music could be quite different. Walton love to live in Oxford and

daughter was the most beautiful place he had seen. When his voice

started to break he feared being sent home to all them. He devised

strategies in his life here to avoid having to go back, one of

which was to develop his composition. This was composed by

him? This is a piano piece he wrote when he was only 15. A very

energetic left-hand part that he wrote. He really felt he had to

make and sell special because he did not want to go back to Aldham.

What would have happened if he had? He would have gone back to working

the cotton mills like other children of the same sorts of

families. Did the strategy work? did and he was taken under the wing

of the Dean he wants to push this boy's talent. Music allowed Walton

to escape his old life, his career as a composer rocketed launching

into high-society. Crown imperial grace George Inn 6's coronation and

many royal occasions since. Today it is being performed in

Christchurch Cathedral specially You know you have arrived when you

asked to compose something Faure coronation. The you certainly do.

Isn't it wonderful? He really knew how to write for these grand

occasions. It feels Royal. How is he doing that? The wide range of

instruments. The strings, all of that comes together to create this

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great, dramatic, know the effect. Today Sir William Walton is

regarded as one of Britain's greatest composers, favoured by

kings and queens. Pretty good going for a boy who couldn't afford the

We will be hearing very different music tonight. There they are, in

the royal box, all seated and ready to go. Brian May is up there! He

can relax this time round. Prince Edward. All sitting waiting.

Only six minutes and 35 seconds. All the artists are probably a bit

nervous now. Sir Cliff Richard told us earlier he was feeling a bit

nervous but very excited and early on he popped in to have a chat

about what he will be performing tonight. Is our lovely bus bringing

back great memories. The last time I was on a bus I drove it! I didn't

actually, I was getting home from the big pageant on the Thames

yesterday, my car got lost, it was pouring with rain so we got on the

bus to Chelsea. I had to sign autographs but I got on a bus and

it was great fun. Did you have a singalong on the bus? Quietly. I

was having photographs taken by everybody. So I thought I'd better

not make too much of a play or that. How has your day been? I have done

nothing. I got here an hour early because there is nothing on the

streets. Everybody thinks the streets will be jammed but there is

nobody on them. Sarah Elton through a wonderful party for us and we are

all coming in and out at different times. This afternoon? That is when

it happened. But will people turn up tonight? I think so. I am here!

I could do two hours if they want. It is an incredible five, all the

different acts and artists. There is always something about doing a

show like this, there is an excitement there. I guess it is to

do with the longevity of monarchy, the fact you are in the presence of

somebody connected to Henry VII somewhere along the line. About 10

years ago we performed in her back garden, all the competitive thing

disappears and we become like a true fraternity of singers and

dancers. Backstage is always very relaxed. It is fantastic. I love

these events. Can you give us any clues as to what is on your set

list tonight? I am told I should not really so I will only say when

I was sitting thinking about it I thought I am probably older than

everyone on the show, so I probably might be the only one who could

Sing a hit from the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 2000. So I will do that.

you be congratulating the Queen in true Sir Cliff Richard style?

will play it by ear and see if I dare to! We are looking forward to

Not long now until he is performing in front of Prince Harry there...

We did see Heston there. Sat at the top there. The Duke and Duchess of

Cambridge are there. They almost have as good a view as us. We have

been really lucky that all the artists have dropped by this

afternoon and this evening on the show. Early on... We had a dream

come true! They said would you like to speak to Stevie Wonder? We said

OK! We put a keyboard in front of the bus and this is what happened...

It has just gone lunchtime and we were setting up the bus and look

who turned up. Stevie Wonder! question is how much did you pay

them to do that?! You had just finished rehearsing, did it go

well? I am very happy. Good English accent! Will this be the first time

you have played for the Queen? First time, yes. A dream come true?

It is and I just hope we can do more of a longer situation at some

stage for Her Majesty because my two youngest sons wanted to be here

but they have school today. So I said you cannot come. Come on, Dad!

It is really a wonderful thing. Isn't she lovely? It is a

celebration, I am honoured to be invited. Could we have a touch of

Habi birthday? Sing with me? Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday! That was a dream come

true and that was for the Queen's official birthday on 16th June.

Such a special moment. Indeed. We are surrounded by the Military

Wives Choir. Congratulations. What was it like singing? Amazing. I

feel so privileged to be part of it. And working with Gary Barlow as

well. And led by the wonderful Gareth Malone. Yes, a great person.

You are part of the concert tonight but who are you particularly

looking forward to seeing performing? Where to begin? Robbie

Williams! Kylie. Tom Jones. It is superb. Do you get to stick around

after for the party? Sadly we have to head straight back. Make the

most of it now! On the champagne before even performing!

Thank you to you, and all our guests. We will now sit back and