Party at the Palace: Queen's Jubilee Concert

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 2, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000069003
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. God Save The Queen - Brian May with Roger Taylor & Ray Cooper

2. You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins

3. Dancing in The Street - Atomic Kitten

4. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey

5. Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Bryan Adams

6. You Can Leave Your Hat On - Tom Jones featuring Blue & Keith Airley

7. Radio Ga Ga - Queen with Phil Collins on drums

8. We Will Rock You - Queen, The London Cast Of The Musical We Will Rock You, Phil Collins on drums

9. We Are The Champions - Queen & Will Young, The London Cast Of The Musical We Will Rock You, Phil Collins on drums

10. Why - Annie Lennox

11. Move It - Cliff Richard featuring S Club 7 & Brian May

12. Paranoid- Ozzy Osbourne

13. I Want Love - Elton John

14. God Only Knows - Brian Wilson featuring The Corrs

15. Good Vibrations - Brian Wilson featuring Emma Bunton & Atomic Kitten

16. Layla - Eric Clapton

17. Gimme Some Lovin' - Steve Winwood

18. With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker featuring Steve Winwood & Brian May

19. Handbags & Gladrags - Rod Stewart featuring J'anna Jacoby

20. All You Need Is Love - Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Paul McCartney

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent record of a memorable event in music history, January 14, 2003

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sir_isaac_newton (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Party at the Palace: Queen's Jubilee Concert (Audio CD)

(3.5-4*)
This is a decent CD of this historic musical event. We enjoyed the TV coverage of the event by VH1 and Mrs. Osbourne in the USA but inevitably much was cut. The opening National Anthem played by Brian May from the roof top of Buckingham Palace is unforgetable -- visually and aurally wonderful. Unforgivably they cut Tom Jones and Shirly Bassey from the TV coverage. The CD covers more of the Party which is great. However I believe it is not a complete record of the show -- I am pretty sure I heard (a fairly lack lustre version of) "My Guitar Gently Weeps" during the show -- somebody please stick an overdriven Les Paul in EC's hands and tell him to cut loose. I found Sir Paul way too over exposed and in your face for my tastes during the show -- fortunately that is not quite so grating on the CD. Sir Paul led a couple of dud songs during the show of which only one appears on the CD [they needed a shepherd's hook to pull him off really].

Queen (the group!) stole the show - of course nobody can replace Freddie Mercury for vocals but the boys did a surprisingly good job. Other memorable momments included Annie Lennox (always great it seems), Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys doing good vibrations and Ozzy Ozbourne & Tony Iommi playing Paranoid for the Royal family (who could have foreseen that?!). Sir Cliff Richard hamming next to Ozzy was a pretty strange sight too (good Christian Cliff all in white, dark prince Ozzy all in black - clever, eh?!).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Party Hearty!, August 28, 2002

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Mike King "Mike Vegas King" (Taunton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Party at the Palace: Queen's Jubilee Concert (Audio CD)

This is one of the best tribute CDs ever released, featuring England's rock and roll royalty. Sting is noticeably absent, but a pleasant surprise is the inclusion of Shirley Bassey. She proves that her voice has lost none of its power, as she belts out a strong version of "Goldfinger." Too bad she's not included on the current Goldmember soundtrack. Cliff Richard sounds like a young rocker on the rockabilly classic "Move It." It's bittersweet to hear Queen without Freddie Mercury, but Brian May and company carry on admirably. Sir Elton John must have missed the memo about performing older songs, as he turns in a heartfelt rendition of his current single at the time, "I Want Love." Even Brian Wilson, the only American in the concert, sounds in fine voice on "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations." Tom Jones may have had some royal undergarments thrown his way while singing the sexually suggestive song "You Can Leave Your Hat On." That song was originally sung by Joe Cocker, who is on hand to perform "With A Little Help From My Friends." Rod Stewart immediately follows him with a moving version of "Handbags And Gladrags." Having two gravelly-voiced singers in a row works well, which is further proven on "All You Need Is Love." Rod starts the song off, followed by Joe Cocker and chorus; Sir Paul McCartney joins in midway through the song. Sir Paul leads off the concert closer "Hey Jude," with all of the other artists singing along with the last chorus. I guess my invitation to the party got lost in the mail!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How about 3&3/4 stars?, some of it was fun to listen to., August 22, 2002

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A. Burchfield (Conway, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Party at the Palace: Queen's Jubilee Concert (Audio CD)

As I understand it the purpose of this concert was to celebrate 50 years of the Queen reign with a sampling of music from the time period. I think Prince William & Harry were supposed to have had a hand in the choice of artists selected, Queen Victoria must be spinning in her grave.
Some of the performances weren't the best in my opinion, Brian May's God Save the Queen might've been something to see from the roof of the Palace but it didn't sound like much. I thought Bryan Adams #5 Eveything I do was pretty good as was #16 Layla by Eric Clapton and #2 Can't buy me love by Phil Collins (by my count he was a drummer for 17 of the 21 selections). The Queen might not've been thrilled with it (who picked Ozzy Osbourne?)but it seems to have pleased an awful lot of people.