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The Closing Ceremony featured music from various eras of British pop culture

A musical “mishmash of eras and styles closed the London Olympics in a long and raucous fashion on Sunday, according to Lisa Dillman of the L.A. TIMES. There were “familiar music icons, including the Pet Shop Boys, the reunited-for-a-night Spice Girls, Annie Lennox, Ray Davies, Fatboy Slim and singer George Michael.” The Who “closed the show with a four-song set."  The show, directed by Kim Gavin and titled “A Symphony of British Music,” featured “quirky elements witnessed in the opening ceremony last month accompanied by a surreal twist” ( L.A. TIMES, 8/13 ). In London, Mick Brown writes the Games “finally came to a tumultuous conclusion last night in a vibrant closing cerem ...