the Royal Concert

[Dee Sa]

who did you like singing the best ? for me it was Madness singing " Our House" on the roof of Buck House.
Would like to have seen Paul Potts or Subo included in the concert though, did we really need Grace Jones ?

[NOX]

Grace Jones was terrible as was Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney was utterly dire.I agree about SuBo and Paul Potts. There is a lot of talent that should have been there,instead of the same old stale faces. I thought Shirley Bassey was pretty damned good for her age though. Interesting to see that Princess Anne knew the lyrics to everything except the Beatles songs- maybe she was more of a Stones girl in her day :)

[murraymints]

Thought Grace Jones was just plain cringeworthy....Tom Jones the best for me !

[Georgiesmum]

I thought Cliff was awful, also Cheryl Cole, who clearly cant sing. I liked all the others though

[vodkancoke]

Robbie...obviously! I thought Kylie was good, Madness were fantastic as was Tom Jones. I though Paul McCartney was dreadful, Elton John wasn't much better and Cliff was dire.

[Hopkirk]

I thought the whole event was damned good.

[murraymints]

why on earth was Will I am there ??? to act as a guide dog to Stevie Wonder ?

[Eve]

Robbie and Tom Jones were great. I've never been the biggest fan of Paul McCartney personally but was a bit Beatles fan (after the event mind but still) and can't help thinking it would have been incredible to be there with it all lit up with him doing Live and Let Die and Let it Be. Always loved Elton John too. Madness were great and I liked the classical pieces and opera. They could have used so much more of the classical I think.

I think there were some strange choices rather than a straight out Best of British, I thought there may have been people like Russell Watson and Katharine Jenkins (much as she annoys me) there and it being more a celebration of Britishness and the Queen herself (maybe she is a big fan of all the acts, who knows!) than it was. Maybe it was seen as more of a thing for "the people" as we already have things like Royal Variety and proms.

[boxtops]

The acts were apparently chosen to reflect all the decades of the Queen's reign

[ummmm]

I'm with Hopkirk....I enjoyed all of it.

[tonyav]

Pity that McCartney didn't have Ringo banging the drums.

[tiggerblue10]

I was listening to it from the kitchen and enjoyed what I heard.

[cathfromsaron]

grace jones was irrelevant and too stange!

rest was fab, madness and the graphics were the best for me!

cath x

[tiggerblue10]

I liked the song sung by the Army wives and the children.

[commoner]

Humbug all of it !Bah!.... I turned it off and listened to my collection of Beethoven Symphonies....that's what I call music....

Heh Heh....kidding....I loved it all especially Shirley Bassey, the first love of my life...:-)

[dennisb66]

I enjoyed the entire spectacle,well done the organisers,Gary Barlow and the army of workers who helped set it all up.However, i thought that Grace
Jones,Anni Lennox and Paul Mcartney were a let down.
Lighting displays on the Palace were fantastic,especially when Madness were singing.

[Hopkirk]

No Tonyav, Paul Mc had a really good drummer.

(Ringo apparently wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles)

[lozzer50]

alfie bo was brilliant ,paul mc c and elton are getting a little bit past their best and sounded terrible! as for grace jones why was she there???

[B00]

Alfie Boe with that woman (sorry, forgot her name) on the balcony singing Place For Us

[tonyav]

I know Hopkirk, I said it with tongue in cheek.