After choosing the song for the closing ceremony on Sunday they decided that some of the lyrics would have to be omitted or re-written amid concerns that they could cause offence.Right lets get this clear, the song has been out for decades so who is it going to offend?
The song was chosen as the centrepiece of an eight-minute £2.5million British segment at the event in Beijing at which the Olympic flag will be officially passed to the London Mayor Boris Johnson.Way to go, piss away a cool £2.5million quid for eight minutes in which a flag is handed over. Nothing like value for money and that is nothing like value for money.
Organisers of the London 2012 Games commissioned the band's guitarist Jimmy Page to record a new version of the song to be performed on top of a special red double-decker bus accompanied by Leona Lewis, winner of the ITV reality television show The X Factor, with David Beckham looking on.Oh the class! Aging rocker playing on a double decker bus with some non entity from chavscum tv, whilst a footballer looks on.
Still at least it was not a London bendy bus, apparently Boris don't like them.
But, according to London 2012 officials, Lewis - who grew up in east London close to the Olympic site - requested a change to the song's second verse because she was worried they would not make sense for a female singer.So a classic song gets amended due to the inability of a chavscum tv singer to make sense of said lyrics?!
The band also agreed to a request from organisers to drop the third verse, which includes similar sexual innuendoes, to fit in to the eight-minute performance.Just as well they did not choose to do the "Lemon Song" from the same album! But it gets better, well actually it don't...
As the Beijing mayor Guo Jinlong passes the flag to Boris Johnson, the Greenwich pips will herald the start of the London section of the show followed quickly by a rendition of the national anthem - including, unusually, its second verse, performed by 25 children from the National Youth Theatre.
A London bus will then be driven into the arena, chased by Britain's Olympic gold medal winning cyclists Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton.
The top section of the vehicle will open up like a "lotus flower" to reveal a stage from which elevated platforms will lift Lewis and Page. A further platform will rise up to reveal former England captain Beckham, flanked by a violinist and a cellist dressed in Britain's official Olympic kit.
Beckham, who featured in England's disappointing 2-2 draw against the Czech Republic at Wembley on Wednesday night, will then kick a football into a crowd of athletes in the centre of the arena.
Gasp, lets see some £2.5million for a bus, some "celebs" and we get to see Beckham kick a football.
Jesus wept, that phrase "David Beckham looking on" really does encapsulate every thing that is wrong with this nation right there, throw in the bint from chavscum tv and its a clusterfuck waiting to happen.
Also when said chavscum tv winner decides that a song has to be
Bloody New Labour Champagne Socialists who are spunking away our money on 2012.
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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant entry. I so agree. These Olympics are nothing but a huge waste of money. And we're supposed to celebrate these grandoise circle jerks? Further proof, if any were needed, of how idiotic the world really is.
Got to agree with every word. It's a fucking disgrace.
Forget our olympians - David Beckham kicked a ball into the crowd!! - "Swoon".....
Surely a gold medal winning performance by such a "Brilliant" footballer.
Is there anywhere the bastard doesn't get?
And how much of the tax payers "Hard earned" did he pocket for this pointless appearance?
Agree with all points raised, also on top of the squillions wee'd away on the 2012 show we also fund our sportsfolk through the lottery.
State funding via the back door.
I heard this morning on the radio that you folks are going to have a special Olympic tax or something, good heavens, in these dire economic times, you still have to cough up even more to fund this.
So will you lot be getting free tickets to attend the event that you're paying for. Oh that's right, they only want your money, you can shove off after that.
Just because a song's been around a while that doesn't necessarily dull it's ability to offend.
God Save the Queen has been around for ages and that makes me spit chips. Oh, I KNOW it's pinko of me and I KNOW it's frightfully Bolshevist, but hey- how many times in this blog does our beloved author complain about unelected this, foreign that, waste of money the other?
But I have to disagree somewhat with you all here. I mean, we all got bills to pay and worries to tend to but that will never stop us going and having a beer and a laugh. Scale it up a notch or two, the nation has bills, worries. So have a bit of a party. Makes sense to me.
I humbly submit that a dog with tits ought to serve as the olympic mascot.
Fine idea, the dog with tits should be the logo for 2012!!!!
Agree with everything you said about this sorry spectacle, but...
who was the violinist in those brief shorts? What a honey!
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