The Concert for Diana took place on June 30th at Wembley Stadium and more than 60000 people in the stadium plus millions of others in over 140 countries around the world took time to remember and celebrate the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. The concert wasn’t designed to be a fund raising event, but “all net proceeds from the Concert, however, will go to the charities chosen by Prince William and Prince Harry”.
A DVD of highlights of the concert is expected to be released later in the year - let’s hope that the production is much slicker than that put on by The BBC for the live concert. Highlights were Rod Stewart, Tom Jones, Take That and The Joseph Medley featuring Donny Osmond, Jason Donovan and Lee Mead.
Not so good were Fergie from The Black Eyed Peas (she’s better with them and Glamourous is a cheesey song in the style of Jenny from The Block by J Lo), Bryan Ferry (was Stick Together an appropriate song?), and poor old Ricky Gervais who after a storming song was forced to fill in.
That aside, it was a concert to remember the life of Diana, and hopefully when the DVD comes out it will add further revenues to the chosen charities.