GRACE JONES AT THE DIAMOND JUBILEE

Hello Met,

I’m aware you are across the Atlantic and may have missed the recent festivities over this side of the pond in the last few days.

The queen of England has been celebrating her Diamond Jubilee to mark sixty years on the throne. As part of the celebrations, a concert was held infront Buckingham Palace.

As a tribute to the queen, Gary Barlow, of the band Take That, and Composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber, wrote a brand new song for the queen, featuring sounds and performers from the Common Wealth, Gary travelled around the world to come up with a beautiful song called Sing, featuring sounds from Kenya, Australia, Jamaica and the Solomon Islands. The song began and ended with some Kenyan children singing so so beautifully.

The concert featured mainly british acts but there were a few invitees from different countries such as the great Stevie Wonder and W.i.l.l.iam from Black eyed Peas(I think he only made the bill cos he was already here working on some other projects) He sang ‘I got a feelin’ so I guess that wasn’t so bad.

One of the biggest and for me, most unexpected preformances of the night however, was the one and only Grace Jones, she gave a brilliant and energetic performance, and she looked absolutely stunning, I cant believe she is 64!. Gavin Martin, Mirror music critic, gave her a 5 crowns rating, alongside Stevie Wonder, Kylie Minogue and the band Madness.
Met the Woman is a Legend and we need more like her. You would have to see the performance to really get what I am talking about.
It is on Youtube but, unfortunately I do not have an account, so could not post the clip with the e-mail but I suspect you have an account Met so if you’re interested you could find and post it long side.

The queen is a world icon, and the Diamond Jubilee was a very significant event in her reign for various reasons. I think the fact that a tiny island such as Jamaica featured so prominently in the Jubilee celebrations, says alot about how much we are respected as a Nation.
We all need to live up to that respect and stop letting our Island down.