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I just about pissed myself laughing.
So did I 
Heh, I saw that on the news last night and I wondered if I was imagining things. Mind you, the only time I’ve seen the Changing of the Guard the band played “Live and Let Die”, gloriously.
“…mired in con-TROV-uh-cy”?
Was Brown behind it?
Yep, you have to talk proper on our programmes.
Wow…that’s…wow. Certainly a new one by me. My company has head offices here in New Jersey and another in London, and I talk with the folks over there on just about a daily basis. I’m used to their speech patterns enough that I don’t even look at things like the way “aluminium” is spoken there as a mispronunciation anymore – it’s just a different way of saying it.
But that? Wow…that was out there.
Can anyone provide any insight into this? I mean, was it a joke? That particular song was composed specifically as a score for the film, correct? It’s not like there’s any other older if slightly more arcane historical precedence for playing it, is there?
We often watch the BBA America evening news, and we’ve gotten used to con-TROV-er-sy, GLASS-ier, and assorted other lovely pronunciations. It definitely does take a bit of getting used to.
I suspect it’s a bit of light-hearted (and perhaps slightly irresponsible) selective editing. Nothing in the clip shows him actually arriving to that music, it was probably being played as one of a number of warm-up pieces earlier on, in a ‘keep the crowd happy’ manner. And while the list of pieces to be played no doubt is checked over by someone fairly high up, ‘J. Williams - Imperial March’ doesn’t exactly highlight the irony.
Rather like a story I heard from a vicar, of how it can be difficult to be sure that the music to be played at cremations (and other ceremonies) can be tricky. He learnt the hard way by not realising until too late the problem with the lyrics to Robbie Williams’ Let Me Entertain You…‘I’m a burning effigy, of everything I used to be’… :smack:
Going completely off-topic here, but if you didn’t already know it, there’s a rather interesting history to the aluminium/aluminum divide.