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:
Brian May + The Royal Academy Of Music Symphony Orchestra* With Roger Taylor & Ray CooperGod Save The Queen 1:58
Phil CollinsYou Can't Hurry Love 3:04
Atomic KittenDancing In The Street 2:41
Shirley BasseyGoldfinger 2:57
Bryan AdamsEverything I Do (I Do It For You) 4:18
Tom Jones Feat. Blue & Keith AireyYou Can Leave Your Hat On 3:51
Queen + Phil CollinsRadio Ga Ga 2:18
Queen + London Cast Of The Musical We Will Rock You, The* + Phil CollinsWe Will Rock You 1:45
Queen + Will Young + London Cast Of The Musical We Will Rock You, The* + Phil CollinsWe Are The Champions 2:38
Annie LennoxWhy 5:36
Cliff Richard Feat. S Club 7 & Brian MayMove It 2:43
Ozzy Osbourne With Tony IommiParanoid 3:12
Elton JohnI Want Love 4:31
Brian Wilson Feat. The CorrsGod Only Knows 2:48
Brian Wilson Feat. Cliff Richard, Emma Bunton & Atomic KittenGood Vibrations 4:22
Eric ClaptonLayla 6:20
Steve WinwoodGimme Some Lovin' 2:49
Joe Cocker Feat. Steve Winwood & Brian MayWith A Little Help From My Friends 5:40
Rod Stewart Feat. J'Anna JacobyHandbags & Gladrags 3:56
Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Paul McCartney, Ladysmith Black Mambazo And VariousAll You Need Is Love 3:37
VariousHey 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.
Millenium Classic Rock Party is a compilation album, released by Rhino Records in 1999. Part of Rhino's Millenium Series, released February 16th, 1999.
Track listing :
Queen We Will Rock You
BostonMore Than A Feeling
ForeignerHot Blooded
The Doobie BrothersChina Grove
Steve MillerRock'N Me
Chicago 25 Or 6 To 4
Jethro TullAqualung
Alice Cooper No More Mr Nice Guy
Bachman-Turner OverdriveYou Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
"One Vision" is a song written and recorded by the British rock band Queen, first released as a single in November 1985 and then included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic. It was originally conceived by Roger Taylor.
The song has been speculated to be inspired by either the band's "show-stopping" performance at Live Aid earlier in 1985, or by the life and exploits of Martin Luther King, with the lyrics recounting a man battling and overcoming the odds. In the 2011 BBC documentary, Queen: Days of Our Lives, Taylor stated his lyrics were "sort of half nicked off Martin Luther King's famous speech." The song's music video featured a "morphing" effect of the band's famous pose in 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody" video to a 1985 version of the same pose. The song was included in all Queen's live concert performances of The Magic Tour, as the first song of each concert. They claimed they chose "One Vision" as the introduction song because its intro made a perfect concert introduction.
The opening of "One Vision" contains altered (pitch-shifted) vocal sounds (which on the album and extended versions, also appear throughout Roger Taylor's drum section and in the end), most prominently the vocals retained in the single version.
The most prominent vocals of this type relay alternate lyrics when played forwards—they say, "God works in mysterious ways... mysterious ways...". It is clearly shown during the portions of the studio recording session of "One Vision" on both the Magic Years documentary and the DVD Greatest Video Hits II that Freddie Mercury sings the line.
There are various other altered vocal sounds as well but what exactly they say is not yet known. Even more pitch-shifted vocals appear in "Blurred Vision". Finally, a version of the beginning pitch-shifted vocal sounds followed by other altered vocals without any music playing over them, appears in the soundtrack of The eYe video game, as Track 05 on CD 2 (The Works Domain).
Also, the live versions of the song included a different version of the intro, which starts like the single version intro, but later changes into the album version intro, but repeats the section after the vocals "Ii" near the end.
The VHS version of the 12 July Wembley show has the first part of the middle instrumental section of the studio version of "Brighton Rock" instead of the initial pitch-shifted vocals. The version of the song from the 11 July Wembley show is now included on the Queen Live at Wembley Stadium 25th Anniversary Edition DVD and the A Kind of Magic 2011 Deluxe CD. This version of the intro has never been used with a studio version of the song so far.
The progressive synthesiser music from the last part of the intro is repeated in the "I had a dream" section, complete with the last elongated note.
The ending or outro varies from version to version. In the single version, it's a simple "Vision vision vision..." echo, while the album version adds to it some synthesiser music, a random bit of altered vocal sounds and the prominent beginning pitch-shifted vocals. "Blurred Vision" adds an even longer version of the elongated note ending the normal song's intro, and a random pitch-shifted vocal.
The ending in the 1986 live versions is a flourish which varies from performance to performance but still maintaining the same basic pattern, although parts of it to the synthesizer music from the album version's ending.
The final line of the song (in the studio, live, and "Blurred Vision" versions, in the album and extended versions the line before the final "God works in mysterious ways... Mysterious ways...") is "fried chicken", although the lyrics say "one vision". This was the result of trying to come up with the proper wording of the song, and since it was not working, Freddie Mercury at some point introduced words that had nothing to do with the song for fun.
The music video to "One Vision" which was recorded in September 1985 mainly showed the band recording the song at Musicland Studios in Munich and was the first to be directed and produced for Queen by Austrian directors Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, also collectively known as DoRo. DoRo and Queen developed a fruitful working relationship which would result in numerous acclaimed and award-winning videos (for "Innuendo" and "The Show Must Go On", among others).
The video also featured a "morphing" effect of the band's famous pose in 1974's "Queen II" album cover and 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody" video to a 1985 version of the same pose. The video even shows John Deacon on the drums. There was also a video made to match the 12" inch version of the song which appears on Queen Rocks The Video VHS and Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD.
Harley-Davidson Road Songs Vol. 2 is a compilation of rock songs, released in 1998. Track listing: Disc: 1 1. Keep Yourself Alive - Queen 2. Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers 3. Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose 4. Midnight Rider - Gregg Allman 5. Look Over Yonder - Jimi Hendrix 6. Easy Livin' - Uriah Heep 7. Motor City Madhouse - Ted Nugent 8. Renegade - Styx 9. Rebel Yell - Billy Idol 10. Street Of Dreams - Rainbow 11. Highway Star - Deep Purple 12. Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money 13. We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad 14. Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar 15. Highway Song - Blackfoot 16. Bonus Track - Bonus Track Disc: 2 1. Day Of The Eagle - Robin Trower 2. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again 3. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet 4. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf 5. Livin' In The U.S.A. - Steve Miller Band 6. Hold On Loosely - 38 Special 7. Drivin' Wheel - Foghat 8. Under My Wheels - Alice Cooper 9. Gone, Gone, Gone - Bad Company 10. I'm A Man - Spencer Davis Group 11. Face The Day - Great White 12. Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull 13. Heading Out To The Highway - Judas Priest 14. Walk Away - The James Gang 15. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 16. Bonus Track - Bonus Track
