Zadok The Priest - Other Uses

Other Uses

• The UEFA Champions League Anthem, which introduces worldwide television coverage of the event and is played during pre-game ceremonies at each match, is based on this composition. It is regularly (sometimes daily) played by request on 'popular classics' radio stations in the United Kingdom such as Classic FM, which aired this song at its launch at 6am on 7 September 1992.
• Used in royal weddings, including that of Mary Elizabeth Donaldson to Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark.
• Heard on television coverage of the coronation of Elizabeth II in the film Prick Up Your Ears, coinciding with the first sexual encounter between playwright Joe Orton (played by Gary Oldman) and his lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina).
• Used in the climactic scene in the Australian film Crackerjack to dramatically highlight a lawn bowl as it rolled down the green in slow motion.
• Used for the scene in which mad-king George III (played by Nigel Hawthorne) is restrained in the 1994 film The Madness of King George; the song's use, along with the staging of the scene involving the King being forced into a chair, gives the scene the appearance of a mock-coronation.
• Used in the coronation scene of the 2003 film Johnny English.
• Used during the final dramatic scene of the 2005 film Breakfast on Pluto.
• Used in the coronation scene of Queen Victoria in the 2009 film The Young Victoria.
• Used during the Papal Coronation of Alexander VI on the Showtime series The Borgias.
• Used in The Enchanted Island an opera pastiche created at the Metropolitan Opera on 31 December 2011.
• Used in the retrospective episode, "Swan Song" of the television series House M.D., which preceded the show's series finale.
• Used at the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II after she lit the final beacon.
• A remixed version was used on the 19th November 2012 edition of WWE Raw to celebrate CM Punk's 365th day as WWE Champion.