Bill Bailey's Cockney Overture

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Uploaded by on Aug 9, 2010

Bill Bailey along with the BBC Concert Orchestra demonstrating how cockney music is used in classical music and a preformance of the cockney William Tell Overture in the Royal Albert Hall. Leave a Comment.

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  • Makes me proud to be a trombonist. Most brass only blow their instruments, we also jerk ours.

  • I love how Bill is just overcome with glee at the start there, like he cant quite beleive he actually got an orchestra to do this.

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  • @Mittau Haha, yeah. "Hehehe, I still can't believe they gave me money to do this"

  • thank you bill bailey for putting the bits they cut out of the original version of this piece of music - uncut version

  • if ur gonna massacre classical music this is the only man capable of doing it and getting away with it using cockney music

  • Absolutely brillliant! He has so much talent!

  • 'ave a banana!

  • the pearly king joke did not land AT ALL.

    bloody audience.

  • @darkcecee Blackadder is another piece of pure genius along with dads army and only fools and horses. those three are probably the best things ive ever watched, i'd choose them over half the things nowadays any time :)

  • Comedian AND musician!!! Can you say DOUBLE THREAT!

  • William Tell Overture is definitley better this way and always sing this way when other people are arund and it's on telly :)

  • which DVD was it?

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