Pictures from olympic closing ceremony celebration concert

Pictures from Olympic Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert

Source: Guardian UK

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Support from the Specials – Horace Panter, Lynval Golding and Nik Torp – was enthusiastically delivered and warmly received Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Image

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The Olympic closing ceremony concert was a celebration of British music past as Bernard Sumner, of New Order, also supported BlurPhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images




Terry Hall, frontman of the Specials. The night was one of many moods – from giddy pop rushes to melancholy that all the Olympics jubilation had come to a closePhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images




Blur performed on a stage designed to look like a motorway flyover, referring to their recent track Under the WestwayPhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images




Bassist Alex James seems to be focusing on his cigarette ash. Blur opened with an incendiary rendition of Girls and BoysPhotograph: Rex Features




Damon Albarn dedicated the band's 1997 hit Song 2 to Team GB's gold medalist Mo FarahPhotograph: Ian West/PA




Albarn has said the sold-out Hyde Park gig might be the band's final performancePhotograph: Ian West/PA




The crowd roared their approval of Blur's affectionate hymns to the capital – London Loves, For Tomorrow and Under the Westway, the last of which Albarn said he wrote especially for the Hyde Park gig Photograph: Ki Price/Reuters




Former EastEnders star Phil Daniels, who featured on the original recording of Parklife, joined Albarn on stage for the songPhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images




Daniels did his bit to keep up the bouncy mood in the parkPhotograph: Ki Price/Reuters




The best of British theme continued … with Harry Enfield's arrival on stage as a tea lady Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features




Tender moment … Enfield and DanielsPhotograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features




Damon said Enfield was there 'to represent that great British institution – the tea lady'. The band ended the night with a rousing rendition of The UniversalPhotograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images




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Pictures from olympic closing ceremony celebration concert