London 2012 closing ceremony: unleashing a musical superpower

Danny Boyle got Shakespeare – Stephen Daldry got John Lennon, Freddy Mercury and more ShakespeareAs nine o'clock approached, we counted down as an audience, all very cheerful and inclusive; it was like Hi-de-hi on a giant scale, or the millennium. We were partying like it was 1999.It would have been good to hear from Prince, but he's not British, of course. It's not very often that people organise a concert along purely national lines. There are things you lose and things you gain, of course, ...

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