How choir guru Gareth Malone nearly missed his Castle date with Queen

It was Gareth Malone’s “pinch me” moment…Along with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow, he had been invited to Windsor Castle so the Queen could hear the track Sing. It was written for her Diamond Jubilee and performed by choirs including his own, Military Wives. Yet the celebrity choirmaster reveals the spine-tingling experience almost never happened.
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