Dagney, the Queen's bit was inspired, delightful.
And yes, Outlaw, our Queen is indeed cool. Very cool.
Danny Boyle - Genius
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Slidin Fast
Nolaw - I don't know which side of bed you got out of this morning but it was obvously the wrong side.
Whoever said it, "Hey Jude could not be bettered as a closing party song but poor old Macca's vocal chords are not really up to it.
I thoight the combination of querky individualist humour, tradition and a bit of history summed up Britain at it's best. The Queen, what a sport.
Loved it.
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Wasanelder Once
After the cauldron it became a big bore. The whole music section with the black girl and boy were so out of place. We gave up.
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mrsjones5
They were black?!
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Broken Promises
The boy was black, and the girl had a black father and a white mother. The girl left her phone on the train and the boy, who'd locked eyes with her earlier, went about trying to find her to give her back her phone. And when they found each other they fell in love (of course).
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konceptual99
I have to disagree that the music section was out of place.
It gave an opportunity to pay respects to all that has been great about British music of the past 30 years. Even Dizzie Rascal (as much as I can't stand him) had a relevance being a local boy and representing a genre of music that comes from the east end of London. I personally think jungle/drum & bass was more ground breaking than grime but the king of DnB, Roni Size, is not from London. Then again neither is McCartney but they rolled him out in preference to Bowie, who is.
Any sequence of music that includes The Jam, The Clash, Underworld, Stones, Happy Mondays, David Holmes, New Order, Brian Eno, Chemical Brothers, Floyd, The Beatles, The Specials, Frankie, Bowie, The Who (and on and on) can never be out of place! ;-)
Check out the NMEs Spotify playlist here: http://open.spotify.com/user/nme.com/playlist/5qjrWVune0TOxxMtPoy5uf
It's not complete but it's pretty good.
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Chariklo
Come on guys, it was absolutely wonderful?
Who wants perfect? We're human. There'll always be room for improvement!
It was totally, splendiferously, awe-inspiringly amazing! And that's good enough for me!
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Fernando
Well done London for putting on display such inspirational and moving performances and displays. Hope to attend the next opening ceremony in 4 year's time.
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Leolaia
Any sequence of music that includes The Jam, The Clash, Underworld, Stones, Happy Mondays, David Holmes, New Order, Brian Eno, Chemical Brothers, Floyd, The Beatles, The Specials, Frankie, Bowie, The Who (and on and on) can never be out of place! ;-)
I loved that they played Blur but not Oasis. I think we may declare a winner in the late 90s Britpop wars....
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Lozhasleft
I thought it was pretty damn spectacular to be honest.
Loz x