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Four incredible amateur pianists

were plucked from the street pianos at train stations across Britain

and offered a once-in-a-lifetime white>opportunity

to play at one of the white>most prestigious music venues

in the world...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE white>..London's Royal Festival Hall.

Now you can see this life-changing concert in full

as Jay, Lucy, Sean and Danny

play live in front of white>an audience of thousands.

Unbelievable.

They'll be sharing the bill

with one of the world's greatest white>classical pianists, Lang Lang,

and global superstar Mika will white>be making his Festival Hall debut.

I've never performed on this stage and I feel nervous,

so I cannot imagine how our yellow>four pianists feel right now.

And, in a world exclusive...

..these two extraordinary white>talents are about to play together

for the very first time.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, Claudia Winkleman.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Good evening.

Thank you so much for coming.

We're incredibly grateful.

Tonight is all about white>celebrating the piano

and you are going to meet four white>extraordinary amateur pianists

who never thought their white>journey would end here,

at the prestigious white>Royal Festival Hall.

This story started about a year ago

when we invited amateur pianists white>just to come to train stations

and give it a go.

What they didn't know is that white>they were being secretly watched

by two of the most respected

and loved piano performers white>in the world today -

Mika and Lang Lang.

They are waiting in the wings

and they would love white>to perform for you all.

So, ladies and gentlemen, please go nuts for the one and only Mika.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

In the beginning...

..it all started with just one note.

One tiny note.

It's 3am, I'm 21 years old.

I'm in my apartment in London.

I'm sitting and yellow>I'm playing just one note.

The piano is my safe place yellow>and the thing I love the most.

But, right now, I'm angry yellow>and I'm frustrated.

On the floor next to the piano yellow>is yet another rejection letter

from yet another record company.

So, I close my eyes...

..and I decide to turn my anger...

..and my frustration...

..into a song.

# Do I attract you?

# Do I repulse you yellow>with my queasy smile?

# Am I too dirty? Am I too flirty?

# Do I like what you like?

# I could be wholesome, yellow>I could be loathsome

# I guess I'm a little bit shy

# Why don't you like me?

# Why don't you like me yellow>without making me try?

# I try to be like Grace Kelly

# But all her looks were too sad

# So I try a little Freddie

# Mm, I've gone identity mad!

# Someone like me can be

# Brown, blue

# Violet sky

# I could be hurtful, yellow>I could be purple

# I could be anything you like

# Gotta be green, gotta be mean, gotta be everything more

# Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?

# Walk out the door

# How can I help it? How can I help it?

# How can I help what you think?

# Hello, my baby yellow>Hello, my baby

# Putting my life on the brink

# Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?

# Why don't you like yourself?

# Should I bend over?

# Should I look older yellow>to be put on your shelf?

# I try to be like Grace Kelly

# But all her looks were too sad

# Ah, so I try a little Freddie

# Mm, I've gone identity mad!

# I could be brown, I could be blue, violet sky

# I could be hurtful, yellow>I could be purple

# I could be anything you like

# Gotta be green, gotta be mean

# Gotta be everything more

# Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?

# Walk out the door

# So say what you want yellow>to satisfy yourself

# Hey!

# But you only want what everybody else says you should want

# You want

# I could be brown, I could be blue, violet sky

# I could be hurtful, yellow>I could be purple

# I could be anything you like

# Gotta be green, gotta be mean, gotta be everything more

# Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?

# Walk out the door

# I could be brown, yellow>I could be blue, violet sky

# I could be hurtful, yellow>I could be purple

# I could be anything you like

# Gotta be green, gotta be mean, Gotta be everything more

# Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?

# Walk out the door. #

But all that...

..from just one note.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

It is actually giving me goosebumps to be here tonight.

I've never performed on this stage and I feel nervous,

so I cannot imagine yellow>how our four pianists,

who are waiting in the wings, yellow>feel right now.

This experience yellow>has been extraordinary,

but I haven't done it alone.

I've done with somebody who I always respected as a musician,

as a pianist and now yellow>I can also call him a friend.

Lang Lang, ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are here cyan>tonight to celebrate the piano

and so I'd like to dedicate cyan>a piece called Ritual Fire Dance

to, uh, encourage our cyan>wonderful pianists to keep

having fire for your dream in piano.

Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, white>Lang Lang and Mika.

So, before we meet white>our four amateurs,

let's be honest,

throughout the summer you were white>hiding in small cupboards,

uh, watching people play. white>How did you find the experience?

It was thrilling, but we also felt just a little bit guilty

because they didn't know yellow>that we were there. Right.

You saw over 80 pianists, white>they are here with us tonight.

Please will you stand white>up for a round of applause?

These were our pianists. CHEERING

Hi, Harry.

Thank you so much for playing then and for being with us tonight.

How hard was it choosing the four?

It was so difficult.

Yeah, I must say that, uh, I'm lime>really thankful that I have Mika.

MIKA LAUGHS

Because you know they played lime>some classical music which I,

I know. And some pianists play lime>something I never heard before

and so this, this is my, lime>my teacher, you know?

Listen, he was... He was, like, "OK, do you know this?"

I can tell you that, yellow>after this experience

Lang Lang can sing Harry Styles, Tori Amos.

At one point, uh, white>Lang Lang turned to us and said,

"But what is watermelon sugar?"

We were like, "It's a good point."

If anyone knows Harry, white>do ask for us.

Uh, talk to me about white>the performance of the night.

In a performance, inevitably, there will be some magic that happens.

It may be something that just shines particularly brightly tonight.

We're just gonna tip our hat yellow>and recognise it

and underline it with yellow>the performance of the night.

It's almost kind of like our yellow>provocation - make magic.

This is an incredible opportunity,

now take us somewhere special.

Ladies and gentlemen, white>Lang Lang and Mika.

CHEERING

We're gonna ask you, please, white>to take to your seats.

So, we started off at St Pancras white>and we met Jay.

My name is Jay Eatwell, cyan>I'm 24 years old

and I live on the Isle of Wight.

There's not a lot of things cyan>to do on the island now,

it's just so easy cyan>to slip into trouble.

I used to do a lot of stupid shit, really, when I was very young.

I watched most of my friends cyan>fuck up their lives

and just watched cyan>what's happened to 'em,

I just seen a lot cyan>of people crumble around me.

Instead of going cyan>down the wrong road,

I've just put all my energy cyan>into music.

# I guess I don't know cyan>a thing about living

# Good and the bad with cyan>the heroes and the villains

# I kick back with cyan>the zoot when I'm chilling

# So chasing my dream, cyan>I'm not chasing my villain

# I got tired of the same old cyan>feeling

# I run well, pack a bag cyan>and I'm leaving

# I book a flight would cyan>I take it this evening

# When I got tired of cyan>just sitting and dreaming... #

When we were asked to do this... Right.

..that's the kind of stuff yellow>I was waiting to hear. Right.

CHEERING

Please welcome to the stage, white>it's Jay.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

All right, I ain't gonna cyan>do much speaking,

I'm just gonna get straight to it.

This is my song, cyan>A Heart That's Cold.

# A heart is cold, some are crying

# Now she's on the road, cyan>I see someone dying

# Yes, he's all alone, cyan>thinks he's flying

# We lost what we had, cyan>please know I'm trying

# She's stopped on the road cyan>and she can't let him go

# She's taken my heart, cyan>now she's taken her soul

# Oh, yeah

# We're heading away cyan>from the way we're going

# She's heading to hell cyan>without really knowing

# I hope that we find it in time

# Before then I'm losing my mind

# I've always said that cyan>I'll take you places

# You wanna go then I'll be waiting

# I never said we'd be forever

# She's always dreamed cyan>we'd be together

# Oh, yeah

# It's all right Yeah

# I hope to find an angel cyan>from your sunlight

# Sunlight, yeah Yeah

# It's moonlight, she rocks lime>She rocks

# She's always told me that cyan>you're happy, don't stop

# And she's been heading cyan>for the, yeah, sunshine

# Sunshine Yeah

# Go and live a fine life, yeah

# If you wanna go I'll be listening

# She's on the road, cyan>there's something missing

# She's taken the heart out of you

# I hate all the things you do now

# Yeah, she's running wild, cyan>I'm feeling crazy

# She's taken my love cyan>and she's not my lady

# This ain't no rogue, cyan>no heartbreaker

# You wanna go I'll see cyan>you later, yeah

# Oh, yeah

# It's all right Yeah

# Hope to find an angel from that

# Sunlight, yeah lime>Sunlight, yeah

# Moonlight, she rocks lime>She rocks

# She's always told me that cyan>your heartbeat don't stop

# And she's been heading cyan>for the sunshine, yeah

# Go and live a fine life, yeah

# All my life all I cyan>wanted was the fame

# And now I'm looking in the mirror, man, I know it's gonna change

# It's kind of mad I feel cyan>this lost, I was afraid

# Now I'm sitting on this piano cyan>and I'm playing on a stage

# Time's ticking, out of chances, cyan>I have one left

# I had a vision I'm gonna head off through the sunset

# I said I love you like no other, now I let you go

# Hard to keep the straight face cyan>when you're on the road

# And everyone around you is cyan>changing but you're changing slow

# We try and make it to the end, cyan>she never made it home

# Oh No, all right

# Yeah cyan>Hope to find an angel for a night

# It's all right, yeah lime>It's all right, all right

# Yeah, moonlight, she rocks

# She's always told me that cyan>your heartbeat don't stop

# She's been heading cyan>for the sunshine

# All right, all right

# It's hard going if cyan>you're flying life

# All right, all right cyan>Yeah. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Unbelievable.

So, next, we went to Leeds

and I cannot wait for you white>to meet Lucy.

Tell me all about Lucy.

When she was born, we were told that there was something wrong.

It's sensory. Lucy's blind, lime>and it's all sensory.

So, it can be mental health, lime>it can be... Yeah.

..Autism. lime>It can be absolutely anything.

Oh, my.

But there is one thing that makes Lucy feel calm and happy.

Music. Yeah. The piano.

In a minute, you're gonna play yellow>Nocturne in B-flat minor by Chopin.

Wow.

It's unbelievable that cyan>she can play this piece.

How, how, how does she study?

In a way, she's a genius.

I'm speechless, I don't know cyan>what to say. It's nuts.

I really don't know what to say.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Please welcome Lucy white>and her teacher, Daniel.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, that is Lucy.

Next, we went to Glasgow white>and we met the very wonderful Sean.

Tell me all about you and the piano.

Ah, well, I'm 26 now so I've been cyan>playing the piano for 20 years

and it's, uh, very important to me.

I've realised how beneficial cyan>music is

for people that come from cyan>adverse life circumstances.

Whoa!

He's letting us into his head. Yeah.

You know, we're literally stepping into this guy's brain.

Glasgow just showed up to the party. Yeah.

APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, white>please welcome to the stage Sean.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Thank you so much for being here.

It certainly means a lot cyan>to myself. Oh...

Watching Lucy...

..Lucy play certainly makes me cyan>emotional, I have to say.

I am indeed also on cyan>the autistic spectrum.

There's a lot of people cyan>that have our condition,

but yet you're able to see us here because we're able to make a noise.

But there's a lot of us that don't.

You're looking at the cyan>tip of an iceberg.

And not all of us are so lucky.

Throughout my life, emotion - to cyan>understand it and to communicate it

has been extremely important to me

and it's my music that has been cyan>my paramount fascination

and today, I cannot wait to play cyan>for you my favourite instrument.

Oh, yes!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING

It's time for our white>final amateur pianist.

We went to Birmingham

and I cannot wait for you white>to meet Danny.

I lost my father to suicide cyan>when I was nine years old,

which completely changed cyan>my course through,

through life, really.

And then I started taking drugs cyan>at kind of 17.

How I was able to turn cyan>something difficult into music

and something creative, I think, was really, really powerful for me.

# Maybe I could learn to live

# Maybe I could learn to live... #

And then there was Danny.

# Maybe I could paint the sky

# From these tears I've cried

# Maybe I could paint the sky... #

Really quite amazing and also he, lime>he plays the piano very well.

What I like about this song is that there's nothing about it

that felt contrived. Mm-hm.

It was perfectly imperfect

and completely unique to this yellow>specific guy.

APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, please white>welcome to the stage Danny.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So, hello, everyone.

My name is Daniel Wiltshire

and, uh, it's a pleasure to be cyan>here with you this evening.

In order for this piece of music cyan>to really do its job,

I think it's important that cyan>I give some context

as to why it was written.

And, as you saw, a few years ago, cyan>after losing a parent to suicide,

I was faced with my own battle cyan>with depression and anxiety

and things got pretty dark

and, at times, cyan>I couldn't see a future.

My future.

If I could travel back in time cyan>and visit 20-year-old Daniel

and give him something,

anything that could provide him cyan>with some hope,

it would be what I'm about to play for you guys in a moment.

And I'd like to dedicate this cyan>performance to everybody

who is battling with cyan>their mental health,

who feels like they have no hope...

..there are people that will cyan>understand,

there are people that cyan>can give you help.

And, lastly and finally, I'd also cyan>like to dedicate this performance

to a very special lady cyan>in this room,

who's been waiting a long time cyan>to see me on a stage like this.

So, if everyone can give cyan>a round of applause to my mum,

that'd be brilliant.

Thank you very much. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

So, erm, this song is called cyan>Learn To Live.

# And cos I fell

# So far beneath

# I thought these heights cyan>I would never reach

# And so my days turned into weeks

# I was so tired from life cyan>but I could barely sleep

# What if I found the words to cyan>speak and put down all this pain?

# And maybe I'd find a life cyan>worth living, calling out my name

# What if I've learned I'm tired cyan>of running from what I can't escape?

# Cos maybe I can paint the skies cyan>from these tears I've cried

# Maybe I could learn to live

# Maybe I could learn to live

# Hmm

# Maybe I could learn to live

# Ah

# Cos maybe I can paint the skies cyan>from these tears I've cried

# Maybe I can paint the sky

# What if I found the strength to cyan>speak and put down all this pain?

# And maybe I'd find a life worth cyan>living, calling out my name

# What if I've learned I'm tired of running from what I can't escape?

# Cos maybe I can paint the skies cyan>from these tears I've cried

# Maybe I can learn to live

# And maybe I can learn to

# Live

# Live. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Absolutely amazing, Danny.

Can we have a final white>round of applause

for all of our four amateurs white>- for Jay, for Lucy,

for Sean, and for Danny? CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We are going to take a short break

where Mika and Lang Lang will choose their performance of the night,

and then Lang Lang and Mika are white>going to perform together

for the very first time.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Please welcome back to the stage white>Mika, Lang Lang,

and our performers, white>Jay, Lucy, Sean and Danny.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Can everyone also please just say hello to Lucy's mum? Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Mika and Lang Lang, you wanted white>to give somebody

performance of the night, white>just as a nod.

Yes, and it was about yellow>just highlighting

if something extraordinary was yellow>to happen, and that happened.

So we have chosen the person. Yes.

And that person is...

Lucy!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE lime>Well done, Lucy!

I'm going to give this to you. Lovely. Is that OK?

Yeah, that's fine, thank you. Congratulations, Lucy. Thank you.

That was fabulous.

Good girl. You're welcome.

Now, our four brilliant white>pianists have worked so hard

and we wanted to give them white>something else.

Of course.

We, uh, we realised they don't cyan>have a piano at home. Exactly.

They only, uh, play the keyboard.

Yeah. And, uh...

So we... So we decided that, well, I think the best thing is

to have a piano at home for each and every one of you,

and so we're gifting you yellow>each a piano.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You deserve it, of course. lime>Appreciate that, Lang Lang, so much.

So, Danny, Sean,

Lucy and Jay, thank you white>so much from all of us here

for playing so beautifully tonight.

Uh, one last round of applause, white>please, for our finalists.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING

Um, you have been an utterly white>brilliant audience,

we're so grateful to you white>so as a thank you...

I mean, these two white>extraordinary talents

are about to play together white>for the very first time.

So... CHEERING

..please, ladies and gentlemen, white>we give you Mika and Lang Lang.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# This is the way you left me, cyan>I'm not pretending

# No hope, no love, no glory, cyan>no happy ending

# This is the way that we love, lime>like it's forever

# Then live the rest of our life, lime>but not together

# Wake up in the mornin', yellow>stumble on my life

# Can't get no love yellow>without sacrifice

# If anything should happen, yellow>I'd guess I wish you well

# Mm, a little bit of Heaven, white>but a little bit of Hell

# Ooh

# This is the hardest story yellow>that I've ever told

# No hope, or love, or glory, yellow>happy ending's gone

# And I

# I feel as if I'm wasted

# And I'm

# Wastin' every day

# This is the way you left me, white>I'm not pretending

# No hope, no love, no glory, white>no happy ending

# This is the way that we love, white>like it's forever

# Then live the rest of our life, but not together

# Two o'clock in the morning, yellow>something's on my mind

# Can't get no rest white>Keep walking around

# If I pretend that nothing white>Ever went wrong

# I can get to my sleep, yellow>I can think

# That we just carried on lime>Ooh

# This is the hardest story yellow>that I've ever told

# No hope, or love, or glory, yellow>happy ending's gone

# And I

# I feel as if I'm wasted

# And I'm wastin' every day

# And I lime>This is the way you left me

# I'm not pretending yellow>I feel as if I'm wasted

# No hope, no love, no glory, lime>no happy ending

# And I'm lime># This is the way that we love

# Like it's forever yellow>Wasting every day

# Then live the rest of our life, lime>but not together

# With a little bit of love

# With a little bit of love

# With just a little bit of love

# With a little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# Little bit of love, yellow>little bit of love

# Little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# With a little bit of love lime>Little bit of love

# And I Little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# Feel as if I'm wasted lime>Little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# And I'm lime>Little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# Wastin' every day lime>Little bit of love

# Little bit of love, lime>little bit of love

# With a little bit of love

# And I lime>This is the way you left me

# I'm not pretending yellow>Feel as if I'm wasted

# No hope, no love, no glory, lime>no happy ending

# And I'm lime>This is the way that we loved

# Like it's forever yellow>Wastin' everyday

# Then live the rest of our lives, but not together

# This is the way you left me, white>I'm not pretending

# No hope, no love, no glory, white>no happy ending

# This is the way that we loved, white>like it's for ever

# Then live the rest of our lives, but not together

# This is the way you left me, white>I'm not pretending

# No hope, no love, no glory

# No happy ending. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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