Cover Versions
| "Her Majesty" | ||||
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| Single by Chumbawamba | ||||
| Released | 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 at Woodlands Studio, Castleford, UK | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | MUTT | |||
| Writer(s) | Paul McCartney (original lyrics) Chumbawamba (extended lyrics) |
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| Producer | Chumbawamba & Neil Ferguson | |||
| Chumbawamba singles chronology | ||||
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The song has been covered by:
- Chumbawamba (with a length of 1:48, including new lyrics critical of the British Royal Family and a new bridge)
- Peter Combe (with a length of 2:19)
- Tok Tok Tok (with a length of 0:22)
- Dave Matthews (with a length of 0:29 including the recital of several lines from Come Together)
- Twilight Singers (with a length of 0:27)
- The Low Anthem (with a length of 0:29)
- Eddie Vedder performed the song live on April 10, 2008 at Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, CA, and on April 16, 2008 at Spreckels Theater in San Diego, California.
- McCartney performed the song live at the Party at the Palace concert from the Garden at Buckingham Palace in 2002, as part of the celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
- Comedian Dennis Miller did a cover of the song at the end of the HBO special The 13th Annual Young Comedians Special. After the credits the screen went black for 14 seconds, and he came back with a recital of the song before the video abruptly ended.
- Great Big Sea performed the song live on June 17, 2012 in Cambridge, Ontario. Remaining members spontaneously broke into the song (as an interlude) when Alan Doyle's electric guitar kept cutting out a few notes into a song he was trying to begin. There were 3 repetitions as Alan's guitar would repeatedly be fixed by a roadie, and then cut out again seconds into the intended song. This caused the other band members to revise the "Her Majesty" lines more humorously each time the roadie came back on stage, e.g. "Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but he's got no guitar to play..."
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