Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012

[SpookyFrank]

will someone stop wheeling out paul mccartney every 5 minutes please!

If they'd only got Bowie in to do Heroes instead the night would have been pretty much perfect.

 

[krtek a houby]

My least fave Beatles song

 

[ska invita]

bets on the next song...
frog chorus?
when im 64?

 

[Lord Camomile]

And at the bloody Jubilee.
Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey stole that show. They should have got this gig ahead of Paul McCartney.

Absofuckinglutely. Macca got boring a long time ago.

 

[story]

Oh yes! The entire stadium doing the nah nahs!

This is why they got him to do it, you know.

 

[agricola]

that thing with the flames was excellent
rio are going to look like bastards for going back to the one cauldron thing

The rumour is that they are going to try and top this by setting the Christo Redentor on fire at the end of their ceremony.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I hate the beatles - and that song especially

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I liked the cauldron. Macca is a bit meh. Should have got Bowie or the Stones!

 

[AverageJoe]

Is the drummer pissed?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[Gingerman]

Had to ruin the moment by wheeling on that old bastard....again

 

[terrythomas]

If they'd only got Bowie in to do Heroes instead the night would have been pretty much perfect.

amen

 

[SpookyFrank]

I liked the cauldron. Macca is a bit meh. Should have got Bowie or the Stones!

The Stones are even more embarassing these days.

 

[ajk]

Paul mcCartney is starting to resemble ken dodd

And Mason Verger, from Hannibal.

 

[Crispy]

Paul McCartney is an embarrassment. Nah nah nah nah. Nah nah nah nah. Needs a backing tape to hit the high notes

 

[Corax]

I liked the cauldron. Macca is a bit meh. Should have got Bowie or the Stones!

The cauldron was great.

But the TV director doing some arty shot when it erupted instead of just showing it was shit.

 

[trashpony]

I wish he'd stop dying his hair. He looks ridiculous

 

[Santino]

Embarrassing grandad Paul McCartney.

 

[Crispy]

Cauldrons fucking brilliant tho

 

[Corax]

Is the drummer pissed?

I was wondering that.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Heroes might actually have been a slightly relevant song as well. Hey Jude, while I'm prepared to admit I wish I'd written it, it ain't the time or the place for it.

 

[bendeus]

My least fave Beatles song

Aye, but pretty much every one of the 3bn viewers knows it. Right choice, IMO

 

[story]

I wish he'd stop dying his hair. He looks ridiculous

Those two sentences are not necessarily related, are they.

 

[agricola]

bloody hell its a quarter to one

 

[Corax]

Well. That was surprisingly good.

Until the end.

 

[story]

Heroes might actually have been a slightly relevant song as well. Hey Jude, while I'm prepared to admit I wish I'd written it, it ain't the time or the place for it.

But we used Heroes for when Team GB came out.

 

[Fez909]

Is that the real PC?

 

[free spirit]

eh. sodding bbc. where's the stadium gone?

 

[twentythreedom]

Well, 8/10 I reckon, 9 maybe...

 

[paulhackett]

Quien es Paul McCartney?