Critic's Notebook: This is the best of musical Britain? Blimey!

With its Vegas ridiculousness, the 2012 London Olympics' closing ceremony does little to showcase a musical culture at its Olympian peak.The most memorable musical moments during Sunday night's closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics arrived like vivid hallucinations: a massive choir singing the chorus to the Beatles' "Because" while an actor playing Winston Churchill recited a passage from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" from atop a replica of Big Ben; the ska band Madness performing i...

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