Jimmy Page at the Olympics
According to the BBC website today...
"London 2012 officials have lost the element of surprise for their eight-minute show at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
I understand that reports that David Beckham and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and pop star Leona Lewis will take part are correct.
Beckham will appear on the top of one of London's red double-decker buses and kick a football into the crowd when London gets a chance to tell the world what the next Games will be like."
So who do you think should be chosen to appear at the opening ceremony of the 2012 games? Will Led Zep be too old to reform again? Ditto Pink Floyd, Cliff Richard & Macca? Sarah Brightman appeared in China - should she be in the London ceremony? London resident Madonna?
My money's on the committee trying to sober up Amy Winehouse in time - better start now. Number 1 top-selling band in the world will jet in from their homes in L.A. for a special appearance - McFly. Reforming for the event - Spandau Ballet, singing Gold. After that, the chimney sweep rooftop dance from Mary Poppins with dancers from the Royal Ballet and the torch being carried into the stadium by Boris Johnson on his bike and handed to Barbara Windsor for the lighting of the Tracey Emin-designed burning shed.
I think I need to lie down now.
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Nah,
It'll be Brian May and Elton, as per fecking usual.......
From 'The Telegraph'
"X Factor 2006 winner Lewis, 23, is said to be singing a duet with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page for the event, which will be screened live to a television audience of as many as 150 million people. Beckham, 33, will be driven into China's national stadium, the Bird's Nest, onboard an iconic Routemaster bus, before dismounting to kick footballs with children representing every country in the world.
Hip hop dancers will then join ballerinas to complete London's £2m, eight-minute contribution to the finale on Sunday, August 24."
Sounds excruciating ... although I'd like to hear Jimmy Page singing.
Good work with the footballs
for a host nation that doesn't actually compete in Olympic football, and didn't qualify for the European championships... Why does sport = football always in this country? Couldn't it at least be cricket balls?
Watching the opening ceremony and listening to the already growing excuses of the English organisers ('Well, we won't be quite as spectacular as we have to produce it on a budget') I begin to worry about just what will be served up at the 2012 opening ceremony. That hip hop dancer/ballerina bit is beyond cliche and parody.
I want to see 2012 synchronised morris dancers, I want a parade of 2012 Womens Institute jams. I bet what we get is Fearne Cotton driving the olympic torch around the track in a black cab.
Identity crisis
A footballer representing a country that doesn't compete in the football...
...on a type of bus that is being phased out...
...accompanied by dancers in two styles no other country would ever associate with Britain.
The rest of the world does readily associate us with pop music, so Page and Lewis may have to save the day.
Or is this all a nightmare hoax?
Hmmm... methinks Jimmy Page and the Olympics...
are uneasy bedfellows.
Page has many fine qualities, but physical fitness has never struck me as being his raison d'être.
Unless 'Chugging a bottle of JD' has become an Olympic event, or for that matter 'Hoovering a line of blow whilst being serviced by Pamela Des Barres', I would suggest he is better off watching the games on TV.
Surely
Nobody will remember Leona Lewis in six months time, let alone four years?
Leona Lewis?
Who she?
Carl's sister
She sings "The Star Spangl'd Banner" up a storm, apparently.
Whole Lotta Love
Performed by Jimmy & Leona. Just to scare Percy into getting his act together for future Zep tour.