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"Sleep, Dearie, Sleep" was played at the end of the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey. [4] The Queen's piper, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Pipe Major) Paul Burns, whose task was playing the bagpipes outside the Queen's window each morning to wake her up, performed the traditional lament.
The Queen’s Piper helped close the funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her death ...
The funeral ended with the Queen's Piper, Pipe Major Paul Burns of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, playing "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep," adapted from a Gaelic song called Caidil mo ghaol. The coffin ...
The stately, mournful piece was played at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021, as well as the procession to the lying in state of the Queen Mother and the funeral of King Edward VII.
The funeral and committal service of the Queen were the first of any British monarch to be broadcast on television to the public. [179] Filming had been prohibited during the state funeral of George VI, although the procession of his coffin was partially televised, [180] and the service itself had been broadcast on radio. [181]
The last part of the song was sung by May. Close to the end of the song, it features a sample from the vocal improvisation recorded at Queen's famous 12 July 1986 concert at Wembley Stadium, and a sample from the intro of the studio version of "One Vision" and "Tie Your Mother Down". Afterwards, a snippet of every Queen song ever recorded can ...
Reporting from Los Angeles, New York, London and Mumbai, The Times provided complete coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral, as it happened.
Funeral Song may refer to: Funeral Song (Stravinsky) Op.5, written in 1908 in memorial of the death of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Funeral Song", a 2013 song by Fast Romantics