Donald Clarke: God, swerve the king: rock’n’roll proclaims independence from the royals
Never mind Michelle O’Neill attending the coronation of King Charles III. We are here concerned with the removal of The Proclaimers from the “official coronation celebration playlist”. Yes, there is such a frightful thing. A bit of Elbow. Some ELO. Too much George Ezra. The wrong David Bowie. Imagine hold-music for the administrative department of Hell’s most boring substation and you are halfway there. It seems that, until early last week, The Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be was also on the list.
Still your fury. The British papers have, over the past few months, groaned with stories about stars turning down invitations to play the coronation concert. And we’re not talking Stormzy and Little Simz. Such denizens of the dinner-party playlist as Adele, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Robbie Williams will be elsewhere on the happy evening. Even Elton John, whose gruesome paean to the late Princess Diana soundtracked the recreational grieving in 1997, will be otherwise engaged .
Whatever else you may say about the royal family, they have never, ever been cool. They are no cooler than Jacob Rees-Mogg or The Antiques Roadshow The apparent gulf – well, crevice anyway – between the rockocracy and the Saxe-Coburg descendancy should not altogether surprise us. It was not until this century that the two institutions reached such a full understanding. Plenty found Elton John’s warbling in the Abbey a tad vulgar. It was the concert for the Queen’s golden jubilee in 2002 that cemented the entente.
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