Speaking on BBC Radio documentary Our Queen: 90 Musical Years, she explained: “The Queen loves the theatre and musicals like Showboat, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun. “These were the tunes that remained in one's head and were very danceable to.”
Speaking on a special programme for the BBC, Our Queen: 90 Musical Years, Lady Elizabeth Anson revealed the Queen's favourite type of music. "The Queen loves the theatre and musicals like Showboat, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun," she said.
'Praise, My Soul, The King Of Heaven' (hymn)
Classical Music / Master of the Queen's Music
The Queen was a devotee and champion of classical music throughout her life. As such, during her reign, she paid special attention to the Master of the Queen's Music.
Throughout her reign, The Queen had the privilege of meeting some of the greatest singers and songwriters of our time. From The Beatles and Cliff Richard and Queen to George Michael, Sir Tom Jones and Take That - the Queen had seen them all.
Jeremy Houghton – once described by the then-Prince Charles as the Queen's “favourite young artist” – still cannot quite believe the access he was given to sketch Elizabeth II when she was “off duty”. He even, on occasion, would bump into her around Windsor Castle and have unscheduled one-on-one chats.
Queen Elizabeth II has bee revealed as a big fan of The Beatles who expressed deep concern at the attack on George Harrison in his own home in 1999, a German ex-MEP who knew the legendary band himself from their days in Hamburg has revealed.
She has previously declared a fondness for the boy band Blue and has just shared her interest in rappers. "If it makes my feet tap then I'm happy," she told interviewer Camilla Tominey, before adding that she has listened to the likes of Eminem and Ice Cube, but not Stormzy or Kanye West.
For most of her reign, the Queen was roused by the sound of bagpipes played beneath her window – at all her residences around the country. The Piper to the Sovereign for decades acted as a personal alarm clock, playing for 15 minutes each morning, as well as on state occasions.
As a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, the Royal Conservatory of Music has released a special recording of “The Lord is My Shepherd”, her favourite hymn.
The choir sang Like as the Hart, a setting of Psalm 42 to music specially commissioned for the funeral. The music was written by British composer Judith Weir, who holds the title of Master of the King's Music — a role within the royal household in which she composes music at the monarch's request.
Elizabeth I was fond of music and played the lute and virginal, sang, and even claimed to have composed dance music. She felt that dancing was a great form of physical exercise and employed musicians to play for her while she danced. During her reign, she employed over seventy musicians.
Flash Gordon
Brian Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity in 2016. Appearing on Yahoo Movies, Blessed said that Her Majesty told him her favourite movie was pulpy sci-fi classic Flash Gordon.
Mendelssohn's Funeral March
This composition is a grandiose piece that builds towards a dramatic climax.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph earlier this month, the duchess said she enjoyed listening to rappers Eminem and Ice Cube.
Snoop had spoken about the incident previously in a 2015 interview with The Guardian, saying: “When they tried to kick me out of England, the queen made a comment that her grandbabies loved Snoop Doggy Dogg, and he had done no wrong in the UK, so she gave me permission to be here.”
In answer to Olly's question regarding Freddie writing his music, Freddie could read music, as he shad piano lessons when he was young, but generally when he was composing his songs he created the music around chord progressions, and as everything he played was recorded, he had no need to write the notes down.
The British band Queen adopted the look of glam and took it one step further with their exaggerated style of progressive rock and heavy metal. Drawing much of their musical influence from prototypical metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Queen emerged as one of the most unique and influential hard rock bands of the 1970s.
Metallica, one of the biggest metal bands in the world, owes a lot to the mainstream path paved by Queen in the '70s and '80s. In addition to their many operatic stage shows (featuring lasers and multi-day setups), Metallica is known for their wild cover of Queen's 1974 metal-esque song “Stone Cold Crazy.”
While Elvis met these three young princesses, he never met with any other European royalty, despite his fame. Indeed, he reportedly turned down the opportunity to perform at the 1962 Royal Variety Show, which would have seen him meet Her Majesty The Queen.
Forget the classic alarm clock noise: Queen Elizabeth's day begins with the sound of live bagpipes every morning. A musician, titled Piper to the Sovereign, plays the bagpipes at 9 o'clock a.m. for 15 minutes within earshot of her window every morning.