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Kate Bush, The Who and George Michael tipped for Olympics Closing Ceremony
The Telegraph ^ | August. 8, 2012 | Sam Marsden

Posted on 08/08/2012 4:29:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Full details about the line-up for the musical extravaganza that will bring the London Games to an end are being kept a closely-guarded secret, but some acts have confirmed they are playing and there are strong rumours about others.

Fans of Bush had their hopes raised when a new 2012 remix of her classic song Running Up That Hill appeared on the Amazon website with a release date of this Sunday, the day of the closing ceremony.

The listing was later removed and there has been no official confirmation that reclusive 54-year-old British singer-songwriter, who has not toured since 1979, will perform.

Kim Gavin, the artistic director of the closing ceremony, has said that it will be an “elegant mash-up” of British music from Elgar to Adele, with much-loved songs arranged in a symphonic structure, rather than a conventional concert.

It will be simpler than Danny Boyle’s epic, spectacular opening ceremony because there are only 17 hours between the end of sporting events and the start of the show in front of 80,000 people in the Olympic Stadium.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2012olympics; georgemichael; katebush; keithmoon; thewho

1 posted on 08/08/2012 4:29:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

George Michael?

Public toilet sex?


2 posted on 08/08/2012 4:32:29 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

George Michael’s performance will not be on stage. He just wants everyone to know that he snagged a ticket in the random draw and will be cruising the many men’s rooms under the stands.


3 posted on 08/08/2012 4:34:59 PM PDT by JeffChrz (ObamaCare is now ObamaTax. Vote for Romney.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Kate Bush. MMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ;)


4 posted on 08/08/2012 4:35:48 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: Revolting cat!

No Keith Moon?


5 posted on 08/08/2012 4:47:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Jimmy Page is really going to be pissed....he was mad they left him out of the opening ceremonies after taking part in the handover in Bejing...


6 posted on 08/08/2012 5:09:56 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: windcliff; onedoug

ping


7 posted on 08/08/2012 5:22:22 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Yep. George Michael - public toilet sex;band Pete Townshend - kiddie porn.

Winning lineup there.. one to miss.


8 posted on 08/08/2012 6:08:34 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if George Michael is still hot for his cousin....


9 posted on 08/08/2012 6:26:19 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Just because someone has an "R" next to their name, does not make them a Conservative)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How about The Cure and Adam Ant?


10 posted on 08/08/2012 6:34:30 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Free ThinkerNY
How can they "tap" the Who when half the band is dead?

Maybe the two surviving Whos can be joined by the two surviving Beatles. The Wheatles?

11 posted on 08/08/2012 6:39:58 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The Wheatles?


Why not “The Whotles?”


12 posted on 08/08/2012 6:50:49 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
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To: JeffChrz

Met Police constable and George in the toilets:

“Get back!”
“Hands off!”
“GO FOR IT!”


13 posted on 08/08/2012 6:54:25 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: JeffChrz

This is, of course, right after George told the constable “If you’re gonna do it do it right (right?) do it with me!”


14 posted on 08/08/2012 6:55:49 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I like this one too.

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15 posted on 08/08/2012 7:14:06 PM PDT by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Very Not Guilty.


16 posted on 08/08/2012 7:17:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: stylecouncilor
Kate Bush, Cloudbusting

Truly one of the greatest musicians in history.

17 posted on 08/08/2012 8:35:58 PM PDT by onedoug
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