indeed i am quite aware of how some might not wish to celebrate the platinum jubilee, which is the celebration of HMQE2 being monarch for 70 (seventy) years. any system, or institution, or form of rule has always had a form of opposition. this has been so since the dawn of time. or at the least, from the commencement of recorded history, look you see.
for those disposed of a will for a quiet life, here you go, the link to the more elegant and somewhat, at least partially, dignified way of celebrating the anniversary. given the option, or invitation, to suggest a way to spend the time, then yes, i would go full tilt for some posh tea. but, better to be fair to those with no interest in such.
back, then, to what i believe was the first "major" jubilee celebration of HMQE2, the silver one, in 1977. various documentaries and what not since have cultivated an image of the entire nation being at street parties and what have you to celebrate it all. yet it was not all who were so happy.
most prominently, of course, was the small matter of the Sex Pistols and their song what is called God Save The Queen. rather a different version of it from the one most are familiar with. legend has it that on the basis of sales it should have been number one (1) in the UK singles chart, but a bit of manipulation prevented it taking the title. now they do such dishonest things not to avoid controversy but so as to celebrate the dull and the drab, like Ed Sheridan (or whatever).
highly likely that punk existed before 1977, and no, the Sex Pistols (nor McClaren) probably didn't invent it all, but that year and that band are most keenly or immediately associated with it all. having now taken the time to consider it, quite strange that there's been no concerted effort (that i have noted in the news, at least) to get this rendition of God Save The Queen back in the singles charts. maybe it is not available on them "streaming" things, or people just can't be bothered no more.
anyway, yes (of course), here's some Sex Pistols doing God Save The Queen, sans sound, presented of course in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode.
the Sex Pistols were not alone in offering an 'alternate' jubilee commemoration. oh no. the year, or not so long after, saw the motion picture Jubilee off of Derek Jarman get released. i confess the specifics of the plot of it are a bit lost on me, with me perhaps not being quite clever enough, but as i recall it was all to do with QEI being magically transported to a "future England" to see the decay and decline.
quite some time ago, when i was nine or ten (likely ten) i innocently rented the tape of Jubilee. why? it had a big thing on the cover saying Adam & The Ants were in it, and i was a fan. on playing the video, alone, i discovered it was not the Adam & The Ants that i was more familiar with, but rather their first incarnation, doing songs i was not familiar with.
going further, or also, there was loads of things in this film that i didn't quite understand, and was undoubtedly too young to fully comprehend. this was in the golden era when anyone of any age could rent any tape, for no age restrictions applied. sure, certainly i understood the reasonably hefty amount of nudity, and the violence was a bit unsettling. perhaps i should watch it again, then, see if i can't fathom out proper what was going on in it.
just for now, though, yes, there's a scene from the film, with a lady wearing the crown, and of course presented in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode. indeed the use of this mode has not quite self-censored the above as much as i had assumed it would, but i won't tell if you don't.
perhaps i have wasted the opportunity to post something special for all this jubilee business. maybe, also, i have done something apt. either way, or just anywhere on that spectrum, i think that's enough on the subject now.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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