Closing

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I have to say that I thought the selection of songs for the closing was complete crap. And the sound was terrible. The vocals especially.
Lennon singing Imagine was ill conceived as well - I mean the verse they choose is 'Imagine there's no countries...' in the middle of the largest gathering of people from different countries you will ever see.
Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' turned into a limp-wristed performance. Don't even get me started about the Old Spice Girls - music at it's very worst. TT was just verbal diarrhea.
Don't get me wrong - the organization od the games was well executed. But they really need to look at the music they chose and who was chosen to sing/perform as well. That was bloody awful. The only two who made any sort of impact was Annie Lennox and the Welsh/English Choir. The rest was rubbish.

i understand where you're coming from with the Lennon verse Jerome...but i looked at it from another perspective...

"imagine theres no countries...etc",
i took it as meaning there are no countries,boundaries at the Olympics, meaning everyone is there from 164 countries "under one flag and unified",sure,they represent their individual flags/nations but also they came together for a common cause and put aside their political and social differences for two weeks.

my question is,
if they can do that for sport,then why cant they do that for the good of humanity everyday of every year and stop conflict,persecution ans social injustice??

maybe you can answer that, afterall you did grow up in a country that was renowned for those injustices for a long long time(not saying you agreed with aparthied, but you had to live through it and witnessed it from the inside whether it affected you personally or not)..and Australia had sort of an aparthied system also until the late 1960s also,but i wasnt here then and can only read about it.