Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service
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Six months ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber
and I were given the honour of
writing a special song for the Queen
to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.
This is the story
of the making of that song.
to have something
I know.
Our mission was to capture
the sounds
of the Queen's proudest achievement
- the Commonwealth.
I could listen to that for hours.
I set out to find musicians from
different cultures and backgrounds,
record them on their home turf
and blend them into one record.
Wow! This is great fun.
I want to be in your band!
I'd never done
anything like this before
and I wasn't even sure
it could be done.
A day to remember.
One I'll never forget.
'And my last stop would be
the most nerve-wracking...
'playing our record to the Queen.'
No pressure!
This is the Silver Jubilee, 1977,
the whole street in our back garden.
Both Nans are there.
Look, all the kids in the street.
Here we all are, celebrating.
Oh, there's me,
wanting to be noticed.
I mean, a lot of those people,
they're not people
we used to see every day...
everyone just invited everybody.
It brought everybody together.
Do you think? Yeah...
I mean, it's nice.
Is it weird?
Well, I think, I don't know
whether we need... it's very pretty.
Yeah, but we need a key word when
we don't like each other's ideas,
so you should say, "That sounds
great for the Platinum Jubilee,
"you should use
that for the Platinum Jubilee." OK?
Yes, OK.
that one for the Platinum Jubilee?
There's a touch
of the Platinum there.
Ah, OK!
So let's slow down a little touch.
Listen to...
OK, let me try this on top of it.
And keep it going.
Yeah, yeah, that's nice.
Ta da da-da...
what we're doing.
We've been hiding it for so long.
..do dee-do.
I quite like that.
Yeah.
'This is letting the country know'
we've been commissioned to do this,
we're taking it seriously,
we're going on a journey,
and see you at the Jubilee.
So the reason you came in,
you're in charge of the official
single for the Diamond Jubilee.
You're going to write it together
and you embark upon Wednesday,
around the Commonwealth, looking for
musical influences and people
to take part in that story
and that journey, is that right?
Exactly. Who else has been involved
in the story so far?
I've heard rumours, whispers,
of Prince Charles being involved.
We're hoping to try
and get some guidance
from the family of the Queen
to try and help us make this thing
something she's going to enjoy.
Are you nervous? Is it
a great weight on the shoulders,
or another fantastic opportunity?
Great opportunity.
You look a bit more worried, Gary!
'This is quite big, so...'
the whole idea of writing
a song for an event like this,
such an important day in the Queen's
life, and I want to get it right.
We're going to meet
so I'm slightly nervous
Young lad from Cheshire!
Your Highness!
Is there a Gary Barlow in here?
How are you?
I think I'm all right,
thank you very much.
Thank you for inviting us
to your house.
There's so much he's experienced
around the world, musically,
that I want to find out about.
Here we are, the Click Song,
let's see.
'Prince Charles was keen to play me
some of the world music
he'd heard on his travels.'
That's right. You see... unng...
you can't!
That's the mouth making that noise?
Yes, yes.
Amazing pictures.
If we can see a fraction of this...
There's a well known musician here.
That's me in disguise.
Much better shaven.
The difficulty sometimes is digging
out where these characters are
because they're not always
in the main street,
but then you find marvellous
things going on in little corners.
Yeah, well,
we need to travel, clearly.
These instruments are fascinating.
Aren't they wonderful?
Do you see, what IS that?
Actually, you must get these.
to have something with
these different sounds. I know.
For me, it's about picking
elements of this music,
pulling it out and adding it
to our record. Exactly.
Is it just one single?
It's one single.
But you could use all these people!
We could, actually.
We could make an ensemble,
a three-and-a-half minute ensemble.
Absolutely we could. Fantastic.
It's daunting,
but I like a challenge.
I'm going to go off travelling
and find these amazing musicians.
You're really good to do it.
Thank you, sir. The Queen will be
thrilled you've taken such trouble.
The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show - good morning!
'The order from the Palace said
"we want you to include
the Commonwealth".
'And so I'm actually going to go
round the world
'recording unique musicians
and adding them to this record,
and the very last thing...'
The Commonwealth is massive.
All right? Like, massive.
I mean, massive massive.
Antigua, Australia, Bahamas,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize.
No way on Earth we can get round
all of these countries.
Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, St Kitts
and Nevis. I got married in Nevis.
it looks like there's about 50.
to the record.
We've got to remember
that's why we're going.
We're going to give this record
a feel that
the Commonwealth's on there.
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