QUOTES OF THE DAY

“We were not only poor, but we were in debt. All the sound and lighting companies and the people that we worked with hadn’t been paid. So we were at a really crucial point. We might have had to break up if that album hadn’t done well”

- Queen guitarist Brian May, above, on the band’s album A Night At The

Opera.

“She is the Queen. She will behave with the extraordinary dignity and extraordinary courage that she always does. And at the same time she is saying farewell to someone to whom she was married for 73 years. I think that must be a very, very profound thing in anybody’s life and I hope the whole nation, if they believe in that, they pray for her, and if they don’t, they sympathise in their hearts, offer their condolences to her and they hope for her to find strength in what must be an anguished moment”

- The Archbishop of Canterbury

Justin Welby.

“It will reflect military precision and, above all, I think it will be a celebration of a life well lived. It will also show, I think, how much the armed forces loved and respected him”

- General Sir Nick Carter, the Chief of the Defence Staff on the arrangements for the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

“When I was thinking about what song I wanted to write for now, I was thinking that we have been through such a rubbish time. I wanted to write something that feels like a celebration, something you can dance to, whether it is in an arena in Rotterdam or in your kitchen”

- Eurovision Song Contest hopeful James Newman on Embers, his entry

for the competition