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Friday, July 27, 2012
The Olympics!
Its the Olympics! Yay! I have 2 weeks off work. Double Yay! Expect regular blog updates over the next fortnight bringing you right up to date with all things Olympics and all things Jonathan. J x
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Opening Ceremony Bingo
1) Shakespeare (and quote from ‘As You Like It (‘All the worlds a stage…’)
2) Winston Churchill (black & white footage featuring V sign). Dancers with cigars
3) Laurence Olivier on a horse (from Henry V). Spectators form St. George cross
4) Montage of people with Olympic Torch (very old, very young, disabled or ‘ethnic’)
5) Dancers perform to Beatles medley – yellow submarine bobs around stadium
6) Buckingham Palace with Union Jack superimposed -
7) Her Maj and royal clips montage – fleeting glimpse of Diana (spectators gasp)
8) Union Jack – as flags, uniforms, hair do’s and make up
9) Queen (Roger Taylor & Brian May – ‘We Are The Champions’ feat. Shirley Bassey)
10) A walk-past of UK Olympians feat. Mary Peters, David Wilkie, Steve Cram & Fatima.
11) ‘Big Ben’ & Houses of Parliament and Thames -
12) A David Bowie song (‘Life on Mars?’ or ‘’Heroes’’) performed by Will Young
13) A black cab (from which emerges Tanni-Grey Thompson)
14) Tom Jones in person ‘Green, Green Grass of Home’ – with sheep and rolling hills
15) Bradley Wiggins on a Penny Farthing. Dancers wearing huge sideburns
16) Lesley Garrett in a union jack dress – ‘Jerusalem’
17) Dancers perform to medley of UK TV themes. June Whitfield appears.
18) ‘Coronation Street’ dancers in character (guest appearance from William Roache)
19) ‘Eastenders’ (with guest appearance from Anita Dobson – manic grin)
20) Take That without Robbie ‘Could it Be Magic’
21) All surviving Doctor Who’s emerge from a Tardis materialised in stadium
22) La Roux/Annie Lennox ‘Sisters Are Doing For Themselves’. Female athletes parade
23) Jude Law reads from ‘The Tempest’. Clips of various.
24) Adele performs a Dusty Springfield Cover. LGBT athletes parade
25) Dancers dressed as nurses, postmen and policemen perform with Rizzle Kicks
26) Edina and Patsy in person, falling over.
27) Elton in shorts ‘I’m Still Standing’
28) Miranda Hart appears with David Beckham, falls over
29) Jessie J rap cover of ‘Downtown’
30) Steve Ovett & Sebastian Coe ‘race’. Dancers perform to ‘Coldplay’ Speed of Sound
31) Torvill and Dean on plastic ice – Bolero.
32) Steve Redgrave does an ‘inspiring’ face and reads Douglas Adams
33) A red London bus (from which emerge the Spice Girls ‘Spice Up Your Life’)]
34) Montage of Clips from British Cinema. Dancers perform to medley of film themes
35) Barbara Windsor (in a tribute to the Carry On films – clip of Kenneth Williams)
36) Vanessa Redgrave reads from Coriolanus
37) Dancers perform to ‘Anarchy in the UK’ (Sex Pistols). Male athletes parade
38) Dancers perform to ‘Get Carter’. Michael Caine appears from teetering coach
39) Madness perform – ‘Wings of a Dove’ - Dove Release
40) James Bond segment feat. all Bonds and dancing girls. Daniel Craig in speedos
41) Tom Daley performs to ‘The Stripper’
42) Dancers perform to ‘The Boy with the Thorn in His Side’ (The Smiths)
43) Duran Duran perform ‘The Reflex’
44) Spectators perform Mexican wave as dancers perform to Rule Britannia
45) Rolling Stones appear for ‘Start Me Up’
46) Quidditch Match - Dancers perform to ‘You Win Again’ (Bee Gees)
47) Paul McCartney performs ‘Live & Let Die’ & ‘Hey Jude’
48) Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter flies on broom into Stadium with Olympic Torch
49) Dame Maggie Smith lights Olympic Cauldron
50) Fireworks to ‘Pomp & Circumstance’
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