George Ezra took a utility bill to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert … as proof of his identity.
The Green Green Grass singer was warned he would not be allowed to perform at Buckingham Palace unless he had a document detailing his name and address.
That is despite the 29-year-old’s tracks racking up 15 million plays a month and the fact he has had three No 1 albums, including his latest, Gold Rush Kid.
Ezra said: “There was this whole stress of what you need to get in. There was a list – utility bill was one of them. We were like, ‘Let’s just do it by the book… do what they want’.
“I was a bit ignorant about how big an event it was. I got on stage and on seeing The Mall, I went, ‘Oh my God’. A couple of days later I walked down The Mall to soak it all in.
But it was great to be a part of it in real time.”
Ezra said it was even a privilege to use the loo at the royal residence.
He explained: “The utility bill came in handy because we were allowed into the palace after the concert.
"I was shown to the toilet where there were 20 urinals and I thought, ‘Well, this isn’t the family quarters, this is the guest wing’. It felt like a museum.”
Ezra was one of the musical A-listers picked to perform in honour of the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.
