Saturday 28 July 2012

Your Olympic Opening Ceremony playlist

Music featured heavily in last night's Olympic opening ceremony, which consisted of 70+ tracks. Danny Boyle burned through some of the most popular/well-known/iconic songs in a section of the opening ceremony dedicated to celebrating British music from the 60s to the present day. Someone even bothered to create a playlist on Spotify:



The Arctic Monkeys secured a pretty long slot, playing their debut single 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' as well as covering The Beatles 'Come Together'. They did a great job, and in my opinion, a better job than Paul McCartney who experienced a horrible beginning to 'Hey Jude', exposing his use of a backing track after missing his cue. Awkward! But as any legend knows, the show must go on, and he resorted to creating a mass sing-a-long to end 'The Greatest Show On Earth'.

Also, I'd like to express my love for Thomas Heatherwick who designed the cauldron. His work has never failed to surprise me. What a genius.

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