Olympic Games closing ceremony: a raucous pageant of popular culture

The last act of the great sporting festival that enthralled the nation – and displayed a capacity to charm and amazeThe great festival that began with the stirring resonances of Danny Boyle's opening ceremony came to a poignant end with a light-hearted pageant of British popular culture.An exploding Reliant Robin featured, along with Take That and the Spice Girls, the voices of John Lennon and Freddie Mercury, Tim Spall as Winston Churchill, Julian Lloyd Webber, Kate Moss in Alexander McQueen,...

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