Charles marks 78th birthday and 50th anniversary of King’s Trust charity with a playlist for special episode of podcast
King Charles marked his 78th birthday on Saturday joking with Elton John that they were “still standing” as he appeared on the singer-songwriter’s Rocket Hour for a shared musical journey.
In a special recorded episode of the Apple Radio show to mark the 50th anniversary of the monarch’s charity the King’s Trust, Charles’s playlist included John’s I’m Still Standing.
Reminiscing about John, 79, performing the hit at a Rock Gala in 1986 to mark the trust’s 10th anniversary, Charles said no one present could possibly forget it “and certainly, 40 years on from that remarkable concert, we and the trust are definitely still standing”. John joked: “I’m still sitting now, though.”
Charles continued: “With occasional bits dropping off here and there. I know this is a terrible problem as we get older.”
The king said that appearing on Rocket Hour, which featured tracks from many musicians who have been associated with the trust over its half-century, was “an opportunity too good to resist”.
One of his choices was Giant, the 2019 dance and electronic number by Calvin Harris and Rag’n’Bone Man, to exemplify the “spirit of that well-known saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, we can draw strength from…
