Olympic opening ceremony: the music, reviewed

Danny Boyle's Olympic soundtrack was baffling at times, but was ultimately an inclusive and unpredictable triumphThose logging on to iTunes on Friday afternoon to preorder the Olympics opening ceremony soundtrack album weren't offered much help: just eight tracks, no titles, no artists. In fact, the most germane piece of information appeared to be that listeners who'd bought it had also picked up the Cats and Billy Elliot soundtracks. Yikes. But we all had some idea, didn't we? We knew at least ...

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