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The Beatles footwear disconnected the Coronation playlist, with the connection Come Together
By Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent
The Beatles, David Bowie, Tom Jones and the Spice Girls are included connected an authoritative authorities Coronation playlist, published connected Spotify.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has chosen 27 tracks arsenic a suggested thoroughfare enactment soundtrack.
Picked by the DCMS without immoderate outer input, the Coronation enactment selection initially featured 28 - but a Dizzee Rascal way rapidly disappeared.
The grime creator was convicted past twelvemonth of assaulting his erstwhile partner.
"A way featuring Dizzee Rascal was included successful mistake - and arsenic soon arsenic this was identified, it was removed," a DCMS spokeswoman said.
King Charles III volition beryllium crowned connected Saturday, 6 May, alongside Camilla, the Queen Consort, who has been a longstanding campaigner against home violence.
The playlist published connected Monday seems to motion much towards the aureate oldies or, arsenic the DCMS suggests, "classics".
The singalong prime begins with The Beatles and the connection Come Together, followed by Boney M's Daddy Cool.
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Image caption,Emeli Sande is among the authoritative picks for a coronation party
The enactment playlist includes:
- The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset
- David Bowie: Let's Dance
- Madness: Our House
- Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill
- Grace Jones: Slave to the Rhythm
- The Proclaimers: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- Spice Girls: Say You'll Be There
- Tom Jones: Green Green Grass Of Home
- Emeli Sande: Starlight
- George Ezra: Dance All Over Me
- Harry Styles: Treat People With Kindness
A spokeswoman said the playlist had been selected to "celebrate British and Commonwealth artists up of the upcoming Coronation".
The selected songs look connected a caller website with information astir marking the Coronation.
It includes look ideas for parties, including Ken Hom's Coronation lamb and Nadiya Hussain's Coronation aubergine. Coronation chickenhearted was invented for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, successful 1953.
Street parties
Details person begun to look astir events planned for the Coronation agelong weekend.
This volition see accepted sights specified arsenic the carriage procession and appearances connected the Buckingham Palace balcony.
But determination volition beryllium nary lighting of beacons, ending a contented from erstwhile jubilees and coronations.
The Coronation service, astatine Westminster Abbey, is expected to beryllium much divers and shorter than the erstwhile three-hour ceremony, successful 1953.
On 7 May, determination volition beryllium a performance and lightshow astatine Windsor Castle and thoroughfare parties during the day.
The other slope holiday, connected 8 May, volition item section volunteering projects.
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