[kj] OT: Billy Bragg: Proud to meet the Queen, have symphonic works performed w/ his lyrics

[Brendan]

what's goin' on with Jaz and that high falutn '
"EU-Composer-in-Residence" stuff? Hmm?  -Oliver]

Expanding his musical interests wider and deeper, I think it's brilliant
myself. Haven't got any of that stuff, but am keen to get the Symphonic
Led Zep, Oceania etc...I've heard some of the symphonic version of Kashmir
on Youtube and it sounds great to me...I tend to agree with him that all
the previous symphonic rock albums are trash (although I do think that
those symphonic / operatic elements in Queen, ELO, Beatles etc aren't too
bad).

I sat through a few songs of Metallica with an orchestra on telly a while
back and it was god awful (to me)...didn't enhance the music at all, quite
the opposite.



> [Bragg is quite the working class folk hero, below! You know, even though

> I'm not crazy about the Sex Pistols, at least they snubbed the Rock n'

> Roll Hall of Fame. But I also wonder -- what's goin' on with Jaz and that

> high falutn ' "EU-Composer-in-Residence" stuff? Hmm?  -Oliver]

>

>

> Billy Bragg:

>

> "Last week, I shook hands with the Queen. It was a Tuesday evening, at the

> Royal Festival Hall. I was there with my family for the Royal Gala to open

> the refurbished hall, and to see a performance of Beethoven's exhilarating

> Ninth Symphony, which was sung with my lyrics."

>

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=487796&in_page_id=1770

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