Queen's diamond jubilee concert a tough gig for rock and royalty

Rebel sentiment was nowhere in evidence as rock's royal family of McCartney, Elton John and Stevie Wonder serenaded the Queen and it was left to Madness to save the dayIn recent weeks, it has been pointed out more than once that during the Queen's silver jubilee in 1977, the only real role pop music had to play was as a lightning rod for anti-royalist sentiment. The kind of people that like to believe that rock and pop has lost its counter-cultural edge in the interim have been heard to bemoan h...

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