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(AP) - "I'm talking `bout my generation," sang The Who, capping some sort of raucous, good ole' `n' roll Olympic concluding ceremony

But which in turn generation? When the actual band users initial sang "My Generation," they have been for their 20s. Now they may be pressuring 70.

Like the Olympic torch missing out on from just one runner to help another, the London games' termination formal procedure was a great all-ages event meant to demonstrate the actual relationship of British ingenuity leaping from one population for the next.

A formal procedure that director Kim Gavin known as a great "elegant mashup" associated with song and resourcefulness had been meant to show that the British Invasion never ended, thank people pretty much.

"It's about how exactly good British songs is within your world, in addition to exactly how global it is," Gavin reported every day prior to a ceremony.

So there were Annie Lennox and also George Michael, who became their start inside the 80s but the roars which approached Michael's "Freedom" and also Lennox's "Little Bird" suggested each are nonetheless going strong.

If that's too good old hat, there seemed to be One Direction, child music group of the moment, along with Tinie Tempah, Jessie J and also Taio Cruz who seem to done their very own songs, subsequently a Bee Gees course in the fantastic age with disco.

There appeared to be Elbow the type of serious piece music journalists really like because respite in case you probably discovered the others a lttle bit cheesy.

And whenever that has been almost all insufficiently quirky, there is some sort of brass group trying to play Madness; a new Guards group inside scarlet tunics in addition to bearskin caps actively playing Blur; along with Monty Python's Eric Idle singing "Always Look within the Bright Side associated with Life" associated with centurions, bagpipers and also roller-skating nuns.

We heard the particular sounds and melodies with the left Queen's Freddie Mercury performing "Bohemian Rhapsody," Liverpool choirs performing John Lennon's "Imagine."

There were many noteworthy absences: No Rolling Stones the particular wrist band said that they were being outside practice. No Elton John, while he / she did document one of the recognized adventures anthems. There had been a David Bowie montage, however very little Bowie throughout person.

It wasn't nearly the music. Gavin stated he needed to signify precisely how "U.K. culture, media, new music tend to be secured together to set-up the following big thing."

So there was clearly your nod to be able to Britain's scandal-tarred but lively press, inside the newsprint-covered attractions and cars or trucks in the starting scene.

There had been fashion. We observed 1960s Mods, whose sharply designed look sometimes appears inside the modern designs of Tom Ford along with others. There were images of supermodels with designs by Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith, Alexander McQueen and Victoria Beckham, at this point a custom and also a Spice Girl.

One from the models was perhaps a Jagger Georgia May Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stone Mick.

The show rocked your 80,000 spectators indoors Olympic Stadium, although didn't acquire rave reviews from all those observing on TV. Some identified this as well kitschy, as well as way too incomprehensive young people wondering that Ray Davies was, mom and dad scratch their particular heads at One Direction.

"Embarrass a generation," tweeted video critic Dave Calhoun within a engage in around the games' endorsed motto: "Inspire your Generation."

That Olympic slogan may also quantity way up that ceremony's ethos.

Or perhaps, to help misquote The Who, the particular young children usually are alright in addition to their particular mother and father are, too.

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