Diana Ross
(Picture: Getty Images)The line-up and running order for the Platinum Party at the Palace – an all-star, visually spectacular celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at Buckingham Palace on Saturday night – appeared to have been decided by someone spinning a roulette wheel. Across three long hours, it threw up Queen’s Brian May shredding the solo to We Will Rock You atop the Victoria Memorial, pop’s Mr. Nice Guy George Ezra having lyrics bleeped out by the BBC, Andrew Lloyd Webber interviewing Lin-Manuel Miranda through the form of song, and some stuff that was even weirder than that.
With presumably unlimited cash and artists champing at the bit to be involved, the Party at the Palace could largely do whatever it wanted with its 180 minutes on air. In the end, it decided to do everything. The concert was a scattershot mish-mash of British culture thrown together in a blender. Was it impeccably curated and scheduled? No. Did we find it impossible to look away regardless? Absolutely.
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