The Queen and Paddington Bear

Loved the Queen and Paddington Bear (I had to ask Mr R if it was really the Queen!!)
Loved Rod. He has said he didn't want to sing "Sweet Caroline" but the BBC insisted. He sang his first song as well as he has ever done, in my opinion.
Loved Elbow - the song that they sang (On a day like this) was amazing, in my opinion.
Loved seeing George and Charlotte - what smashing, well behaved children they are.
Didn't enjoy Diana Ross - I agree Adele would have been much better to end the show.
However, overall, I loved the show and give it 9.5 - in my opinion!!

Apparently the BBC ran a poll inviting listeners to propose a song for the Jubilee and Sweet Caroline won, which explains why it has been playing everywhere.

I find myself agreeing with your last post volver

GG13 ??

It's difficult to tell if someone is miming unless they make a mistake. I do think, however, that Diana Ross's voice was multi tracked on occasion.

I saw the Supremes when I was still at school and think her voice now is still good for her age (78).

I think the show was fairly well balanced and the acts covered most generations.

Calendargirl.
Answering your question from yesterday at 20.43
The ‘plumpish singer in a white t-shirt’ is John Newman who had a big No. 1 hit 9 years ago with ‘Love Me Again’.
Great voice.

Ed Sheering is performing at the end of the Pageant this afternoon, Cliff Richard is on one of the buses not sure if he is singing.

Thank you Volver. After I wrote what I did, it occurred to me that possibly you didn't watch any of it. So I'm surprised but pleased to hear you did and enjoyed some of it.

We loved the Queen with Paddington Bear,so funny.
She certainly has a good sence of humour.
I didn`t watch any of the show.

I watched the start with Paddington, very good, and the speeches and wonderful lighting effects at the end. Avoided the music which just wasn’t my thing. I was surprised it was so unrelentingly downmarket. (Stand by for the accusations of snobbery!)

Just great!

The Queen should take up a new career in comedy. She is brilliant, you can see the humour in her face. I would love to see her doing more sketches like this.

Grandma70s

I watched the start with Paddington, very good, and the speeches and wonderful lighting effects at the end. Avoided the music which just wasn’t my thing. I was surprised it was so unrelentingly downmarket. (Stand by for the accusations of snobbery!)

Andrea Bocelli wasn’t downmarket!

I loved the Paddington Bear sketch, absolutely loved it.

GrannyGravy13

Ed Sheering is performing at the end of the Pageant this afternoon, Cliff Richard is on one of the buses not sure if he is singing.

Buses ?

Is he going on a Summer Holiday?

Callistemon21

GrannyGravy13

Ed Sheering is performing at the end of the Pageant this afternoon, Cliff Richard is on one of the buses not sure if he is singing.

Buses ?

Is he going on a Summer Holiday?

There is a decorated bus for each decade of HM’s reign with celebs/athletes of the time.

Useless fact of the day, buses are not usually allowed on the mall.

It's difficult to tell if someone is miming unless they make a mistake. I do think, however, that Diana Ross's voice was multi tracked on occasion
It seemed as if she was singing into the mike one second, then said something, then continued singing.
The spoken words were inaudible because the mike wasn't on.

LilyBlue

Calendargirl.
Answering your question from yesterday at 20.43
The ‘plumpish singer in a white t-shirt’ is John Newman who had a big No. 1 hit 9 years ago with ‘Love Me Again’.
Great voice.

Thank you. Have never heard of him, but he had a good voice.

Callistemon21
<I,m turning into my mother>
Turn the telly off, whoever are those 4 men they look like monkeys with their long hair and belong in a zoo !
???

Ed Sheering?

I was commenting on/critiquing the production on here purely because I had a former West End theatre lighting director explaining how it all worked. I remember some posters were particularly interested in this aspect on the Strictly thread too.
It's good to share knowledge.

Loved Paddington and The Queen, she has such a lovely sense of humour. Missed a few if the acts as didn’t like them, others were good, why wasn’t Tom Jones there? My pleasure was seeing so many happy people, all together to pay tribute to Tge Queen, no trouble at all.

Did anyone notice a spelling mistake in the words flashed up on Buck House? At one point I think they said your, instead of you're, as in you're wonderful.

Grandma70s

I watched the start with Paddington, very good, and the speeches and wonderful lighting effects at the end. Avoided the music which just wasn’t my thing. I was surprised it was so unrelentingly downmarket. (Stand by for the accusations of snobbery!)

Wouldn't it be kinder to say popular?

Loved, loved loved it. The bit where they tap spoon to teacup introduction of ? We Will Rock You ? was BRILLIANT......

I put it on to see Queen and good as Adam is he'll never replace Freddie .The first half was great.I love new music and I knew most of the acts .I agree Celeste had the wrong song and Rod should be put out to pasture .Loved Alicia Keys was very happy to hear her sing New York ,its a favourite. Bocelli sang popular Opera because of the mixed crowd and he was fabulous.
I left it to record and watched Diana Ross just because she was a favourite in the 70's.I thought she looked terrific and her voice has held up well.
No ,on the whole I'm not happy about the expenditure for this Jubilee not because I "hate the queen " I dont. I hate what she stands for and it filled me with horror thinking that there was near 100 years of Heirs in the good seats .
My wee GD told me ,today,that she was horrified that people would use warplanes in a flypast when there are people in London escaping war ...wise child .