Various Artists "The Queen's Golden Jubilee 2002 - Party At The Palace - The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace"

The Party at the Palace was a British music concert and celebration held in London in 2002. The event was in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II held over the Golden Jubilee Weekend 1–4 June 2002. The event itself was hosted at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3 June 2002. It was the pop/rock equivalent of the Prom at the Palace, that showcased classical music.

The concert was held at the gardens of Buckingham Palace Garden as part of the Golden Jubilee. The event was touted as the greatest concert in Britain since Live Aid or possibly ever. Tickets to the event were determined by a lottery. 12,000 people attended the concert. An estimated 1 million people watched outside the Palace in The Mall and around the Queen Victoria Memorial, and 200 million on television. The concert included performances of many hit songs from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The event was the culmination of a national day of partying. The BBC Music Live Festival also occurred on the day. At 13:00 towns across the United Kingdom had bands play The Beatles hit "All You Need Is Love" before church bells were rung around the country.

A condensed version of the concert was released on DVD. Some portions have been cut, e.g. Ruby Wax's monologue, Dame Edna's introduction of Paul McCartney performing "Blackbird" and Paul McCartney's spontaneous performance of "Her Majesty".

A live CD recording of the performance was also released in 2002.

Track list:

1. Brian May + The Royal Academy Of Music Symphony Orchestra* With Roger Taylor & Ray Cooper God Save The Queen     1:58
2. Phil Collins You Can't Hurry Love   3:04
3. Atomic Kitten Dancing In The Street    2:41
4. Shirley Bassey Goldfinger  2:57
5. Bryan Adams Everything I Do (I Do It For You)   4:18
6. Tom Jones Feat. Blue & Keith Airey You Can Leave Your Hat On   3:51
7. Queen + Phil Collins Radio Ga Ga   2:18
8. Queen + London Cast Of The Musical We Will Rock You, The* + Phil Collins We Will Rock You     1:45
9. Queen + Will Young + London Cast Of The Musical We Will Rock You, The* + Phil Collins We Are The Champions     2:38
10. Annie Lennox Why    5:36
11. Cliff Richard Feat. S Club 7 & Brian May Move It   2:43
12. Ozzy Osbourne With Tony Iommi Paranoid    3:12
13. Elton John I Want Love   4:31
14. Brian Wilson Feat. The Corrs God Only Knows   2:48
15. Brian Wilson Feat. Cliff Richard, Emma Bunton & Atomic Kitten Good Vibrations  4:22
16. Eric Clapton Layla   6:20
17. Steve Winwood Gimme Some Lovin'   2:49
18. Joe Cocker Feat. Steve Winwood & Brian May With A Little Help From My Friends  5:40
19. Rod Stewart Feat. J'Anna Jacoby Handbags & Gladrags  3:56
20. Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Paul McCartney, Ladysmith Black Mambazo And Various All You Need Is Love   3:37
21. Various Hey Jude   6:50

Backing Vocals – Claudia Fontaine, Margo Buchanan, Sam Brown
Bass [The House Band] – Pino Palladino
Conductor [Royal Academy Of Music Symphony Orchestra Md Assistant] – James Brett
Conductor [Royal Academy Of Music Symphony Orchestra Musical Director] – Michael Kamen
Directed By [Concert] – Geoff Posner
Drums [The House Band] – Phil Collins
Executive-Producer – Sir George Martin, Michael Kamen, Phil Ramone
Executive-Producer [Concert] – Lorna Dickinson
Guitar [The House Band] – Phil Palmer
Keyboards [The House Band] – Wix Wickens
Management [Concert Production Manager] – Elizabeth Flowers
Management [Marketing Manager] – Teresa Harte
Management [Project, For Ca Management] – Adam Sharp
Mastered By [@ Abbey Road] – Adam Nunn
Mixed By, Engineer [@ Abbey Road] – Paul Hicks
Mixed By, Engineer [@ Mayfair] – Greg Jackman*, John Hudson
Other [Pr] – Katherine Howard
Other [Rights Clearance] – Claire Jarvis, Wendy Neilson
Percussion [The House Band] – Ray Cooper
Performer [Paul Mccartney's Band] – Abe Laboriel Jr, Brian Ray, Wix Wickens, Rusty Anderson
Performer [The Royal Academy Of Music Jazz Horns] – Christopher Webster, Mike Lovett, Pablo Mendelssohn, Simon Allen, Thomas Richards
Producer – Giles Martin
Producer [Concert] – Cerrie Frost
Saxophone [The House Band] – Eric Robinson 
Supervised By [Sound] – Andy Rose

All tracks ℗ 2002 Golden Jubilee Events Ltd.

Recorded using Quantegy Tape

Recorded live at Buckingham Palace by the BBC, 3rd June 2002.

℗ 2002 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Golden Jubilee Events Limited under exclusive license to EMI Records Limited © 2002 Golden Jubilee Events Limited under licence to EMI Records Limited.

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Annie Lennox & Al Green "Put A Little Love In Your Heart (Single & Video)"

In 1988, Annie Lennox and Al Green recorded a version of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" that was released as the ending theme song to the 1988 film Scrooged. The song reached number 9 in the US on the Hot 100 in January 1989 and climbed all the way to number 2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, as well as becoming a top 40 hit in several countries worldwide. Although credited to Lennox, the song was produced by her Eurythmics partner David A. Stewart.

The video was directed by Sophie Muller.

Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" (Video)

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is a song written and performed by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics. The song is the title track of their album of the same name and was released as the fourth and final single from the album in early 1983. The song became their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide. Its music video helped to propel the song to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was the first single released by Eurythmics in the US.

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is arguably Eurythmics' signature song. Following its success, their previous single, "Love Is a Stranger", was re-released and also became a worldwide hit. On Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue in 2003, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" was ranked number 356.[3] Eurythmics has regularly performed the song in all their live sets since 1982, and it is often performed by Lennox on her solo tours.

In 1991, the song was remixed and reissued to promote Eurythmics' Greatest Hits album. It re-charted in the UK, reaching number 48, and was also a moderate hit in dance clubs. Another remix by Steve Angello was released in France in 2006, along with the track "I've Got a Life" (peaking at number 10).

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote the song after The Tourists had broken up and they formed Eurythmics. Although the two of them also broke up as a couple, they continued to work together. They became interested in electronic music, bought new synthesisers and started playing on it. According to Stewart, he managed to produce the beat and riff of the song on a synthesiser, and Lennox, on hearing it, said: "What the hell is that?" and started playing on another synthesiser, and beginnings of the song came out of the two duelling synths.

According to Lennox, the lyrics reflected the unhappy time after the break up of The Tourists, when she felt that they were "in a dream world", and that whatever they were chasing was never going to happen. She said: ""Sweet dreams are made of this" is basically me saying: "Look at the state of us. How can it get worse? I was feeling very vulnerable. The song was an expression of how I felt: hopeless and nihilistic." Stewart however thought the lyrics too depressing, and added the "hold your head up, moving on" line to make it more uplifting.


Lennox also said that people had misinterpreted lines like "Some of them want to use you … some of them want to be abused" to be about sex or S&M when that was not the intent.

The original recording's main instrumentation featured a sequenced analog synthesizer riff, which Stewart accidentally discovered in the studio when he played a bass track backward. Apart from the synthesizer, the arrangement also uses a Movement Systems Drum Computer, a piano in the middle eight, and Lennox's multitracked harmony vocals.


According to Stewart, the record company did not think the song to be suitable as a single as it lacks a chorus, and did not want to release it as a single. However, when a radio DJ in Cleveland kept playing the song from the album and it received a strongly positive audience reaction, the label then decided to release it.

"Sweet Dreams" was Eurythmics' commercial breakthrough in the United Kingdom and all over the world. The single entered the UK chart at number 63 in February 1983 and reached number two the following month.


"Sweet Dreams" was the first ever single release by Eurythmics in the United States when it was released in May 1983. The single debuted at number 90 and slowly eased up the chart. By August, the single had reached number two and stayed there for four weeks, kept from the top by The Police's "Every Breath You Take" before "Sweet Dreams" took the number one spot.

The music video for "Sweet Dreams" was directed by Chris Ashbrook and filmed in January 1983, shortly before the single and the album was released. The video received heavy airplay on the then-fledgling MTV channel and is widely considered a classic clip from the early-MTV era.

The music video begins with a fist (presumably Stewart's) pounding on a table, with the camera panning up to reveal Lennox in a boardroom, with images of a Saturn V launch projected on a screen behind her, which are later replaced by a shot of a crowd walking down a street. Stewart is shown typing on a computer (actually an MCS drum computer). The camera cuts to Lennox and Stewart meditating on the table. Stewart is next shown playing a cello in a field. The scene then returns to the boardroom, with Lennox and Stewart lying down on the table, and a cow walking around them. Stewart is shown again typing on the computer, with the cow chewing something right next to him. The scene cuts to the duo in a field, with a herd of cows, and Stewart still typing. Lennox and Stewart are then seen floating in a boat, with Stewart again playing a cello. The video ends with Lennox lying in bed, with the last shot being a book on a nightstand bearing a cover identical to the album. The screen then fades to black as Lennox turns off the bedside lamp. The video has more than 210 million views on YouTube as of May, 2018.

Lennox's androgynous visual image, with close-cropped, orange-coloured hair, and attired in a man's suit brandishing a cane, immediately made her a household name. Her gender-bending image would be further explored in other Eurythmics videos such as "Love Is a Stranger" and "Who's That Girl?".


A second video was also produced, featuring Lennox and Stewart on a train. A close-up shot of Lennox's lips is occasionally seen in the train car's window as she sings the song.

 

Sting "Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994"

Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 is the first compilation issued by Sting. It features hit singles from his first four studio albums The Dream of the Blue Turtles, ...Nothing Like the Sun, The Soul Cages, and Ten Summoner's Tales. It was also released on LaserDisc, in which it is a music video compilation.

The album features two new songs, "When We Dance" and "This Cowboy Song", which were both released as singles.