Pink gets the karaoke party started with 13,000 Londoners
Here is the proof you don't have to be horribly drunk to enjoy karaoke.
Some 13,000 people — most of them still sober — crammed into Trafalgar Square last night for a sing-along.
It (inevitably) included Total Eclipse Of The Heart, which everyone knows is the karaoke favourite of inebriated businessmen at three in the morning. And other renditions included Hey Jude, Piece of My Heart, Summer Nights, Baby One More Time and — all together now — Is This The Way To Amarillo. The noise generated by the crowd could probably be heard in Amarillo.
US singer Pink made a surprise appearance midway through a mass rendition of Piece Of My Heart, going on to sing her own hit So What from the middle of the audience. The karaoke, which brought traffic to a standstill, was organised by T-Mobile for an advert.
The mobile phone company also directed a flash mob dance advert at Liverpool Street station in January.
On that occasion, 350 people broke into a choreographed dance routine for the advert that has attracted 11 million hits on YouTube as well as being watched by millions on TV. The latest ad is likely to be every bit as popular.
Footage from last night will be edited in just over 48 hours and shown for the first time during the commercial break on Britain's Got Talent tomorrow at 9pm on ITV1. Organisers handed out 2,000 microphones while song words were projected on to giant screens.
"It is amazing," said Daniella Kostic, 18, from King's Cross. "We came down to film the advert but we did not expect anything like this."
Jamilla Gibbs, 63, from Clapham, who had brought a friend along, said: "We loved the first advert and really wanted to get involved in the second."
Pink said: "What a fantastic experience. Everyone singing together in the middle of London — it was incredible to be part of such an amazing event and to share it with so many people."
