Lest you imagine otherwise, the Tattoo does change.
Some things were not technically feasible when I first attended. The heavy metal guitar solo had not been invented in 1965, yet that musical staple features twice in the 2012 show: once – bizarrely – in the course of a breathtakingly slick drill display by the Guard of His Majesty the King of Norway, and later, in a sort of Brian May way, at the culmination of a salute to the jubilee of Her Majesty, during Diamonds Are Forever.
Please enable cookies in your browser to display the rest of this article.