Music fit for a Queen

[Dreadbelly]

The Queen of England that is.

Clickity.

[beloitpiper]

Agreed.

[Warlock]

Actually, They were playing that when I arrived to have tea with HRM. It's my theme music!

[McClef]

The guards bands play an amazing variety of different music.

HMQ gets plenty of entertainment!

[SnakeEyes]

The Queen of England that is.

Clickity.

Are you disrespecting my Queen, sir?

[BEEDEE]

Prince Charles must have been in residence at that time, or was it Camilla?

Brian

[macwilkin]

This is actually quite common in the British Army; unlike the Prussians, who are famous for their military marches, the British have always adopted "popular" songs, a la the music hall, folk songs, etc. as military marches -- and that tradition has continued to this today. It is not uncommon to hear music from popular movies, like Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Magnificent Seven played by British Army bands. In fact, on a number of my recordings, I have military bands playing some unexpected tunes, like the theme from the Magnificent Seven played on the pipes!

Of course, few Americans realize that the tune of our national anthem is actually a British drinking song from the late 1700's!

So, silly jokes about the Royal Family aside, this really is nothing special.

T.

[McClef]

Are you disrespecting my Queen, sir?

Yes she is Queen of Canada too!

(and quite a few other places like Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland etc etc etc)

[GMan]

I really do like the variety of music that bands can play.

A local Irish pipe band plays Scotland the Brave on Kazoo's

[Splash_4]

That is not a piece of music that one would normally associate with a military band.... But, then again, after this years Tattoo, I'm not sure I can say that anymore...