Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service Page #2

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We want it to sound rich

and, you know, full of personality.

There's musicians

all over the world

and we've just got to

dig them out.

We've got to dig them out

and find them.

So with just a simple piano version

of the melody

that Andrew and I have written,

it's time to hit the road.

I've got to write some lyrics

and find musicians

around the Commonwealth who can

put their own stamp on this record.

I'm starting my journey near the

equator in East Africa, in Kenya.

And there's a very special reason

why I've chosen to start here.

I'm at the safari lodge,

Treetops, at the very spot where

a young Princess Elizabeth spent

the night on February 5th, 1952.

Whilst here, she learned her father

had died, and she had become Queen.

I can't imagine being 25

and given this responsibility.

What a task, what a job.

What an undertaking

for such a young person.

I thought today would be

a brilliant time

to really start bashing

the lyric around.

I've taken with me

from my session with Andrew

the lyric Sing.

And I thought I'd soak up

the environment here

and the historic nature of this site

and see if it brought up

any new ideas.

Sing it louder

Sing it louder

Sing it

Sing it

Sing it louder.

'I couldn't think of anything

more perfect, really, '

that we're starting to write

the lyric of the song right here

in this historic place

where the Queen found out

she was going to be the Queen.

With the lyrics in place,

it's time to start recording.

I'm off to see an African

children's choir at a remote school

two hours' drive from Nairobi.

I've spent 20 years recording things

in dark studios with no light.

We're in Africa.

Look where we are,

look at the landscape.

If I was to imagine African music,

I think of those choirs singing

with their hands in the air.

That's it, that's what we want.

This is what we've come for.

Oh, yeah!

Wooo!

Wow. Hi!

Hi.

- How are you?

- We're fine, thank you.

Good. Do you do

everything at the same time?

Yes.

Your singing's amazing!

Thank you.

It really is, it's beautiful.

Do you know about the Queen?

Eunice?

She was born in 1926,

and also she made her first speech

when she was 14 years old.

Eunice, how do you know that?

Where did you learn this?

School. At school?

She likes dogs and horses.

She definitely likes dogs

and horses.

Yes, you? She's a great swimmer.

She's a great swimmer?

Do you know that for sure?

Questions for me? Yes. That's not

the deal, I ask the questions!

Are you in the band and

at the same time you are singing?

Exactly, I'm in a band.

There's four of us, sometimes five.

That could get confusing,

so I won't explain that one!

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