London Olympics 2012 Plays 60s+ UK Pops: Part I

The grand opening at the London Olympics 2012 was also a celebration of 60s  music and the selection featured songs from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Queen, Eurythmics, and many more. From the folksy Danny Boy at the beginning to Paul McCartney singing, Hey Jude at The End, the stadium lit up to a 21st Century UK return of its own popular music in ol' London town.

Some of my favourite songs that could be heard that night were Vangelis: Chariots of Fire, Lionel Bart: Food Glorious Food, Eric Clapton: Wonderful Tonight, The Who: My Generation, The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction, Millie Small: My Boy Lollipop, Kinks: All Day and All Of the Night,  Led Zeppelin: Trampled Under Foot, David Bowie: Starman.

The list also included the Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams,  The Beatles: She Loves You, The End and Hey Jude, David Bowie: Heroes. 

If you had been watching the TV series in the 60s like Coronation Street, Doctor Who and Monty Python Theme/The Liberty Bell, the melodies were played that evening.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Monty Norman's The James Bond Theme were performed too and if it wasn't for the site below I couldn't have known about the songs presented. I fell asheep after the sleep appeared, I mean, asleep after the sheep appeared, counting them as I dozed off.

What interested me and Singaporeans were some comments from oversea readers below and overleaf:

1) Victor from London, UK believed Cliff Richard had more UK No.1 song hits than The Beatles, perhaps second only to his former idol, Elvis Presley. It would have been great to see a film clip of the young Cliff singing Living Doll..

2) According to cardiffflo from Cardiff McCartney was dreadful and it was time someone told him that his voice had gone and isn't coming back. After a wonderful night of entertainment he was the only low point.

My comment:

We had the four knights of the sound table Elton John, Cliff  Richard, Tom Jones and McCartney performing at the Queen's Anniversary concert earlier this year. I guess McCartney could have been replaced by another pop star? But I need to watch the show again and listen to the melodies, especially the ones from the 60s and 70s. Have you seen the show? What do you think?

(Aside: For the record and heritage: Feng Tian Wei won the Bronze for Table Tennis in the London Olympics 2012, the second individual medal won since Tan Howe Liang won the first individual Silver Medal for weightlifting during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Don't forget to read Part II above.)

Images: from Google.

Information and Comments from various websites about the Games have been edited.
For the full song list and comments check out: MailOnlineNews:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180131/Sir-Paul-McCartney-Songwriter-leads-Olympic-crowd-singing-The-Beatles-Hey-Jude-Opening-Ceremony.html