{"id":30116,"date":"2024-08-12T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-12-2012-queen-the-who-more-perform-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-london-olympics\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:02:26","slug":"on-this-day-aug-12-2012-queen-the-who-more-perform-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-london-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-12-2012-queen-the-who-more-perform-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-london-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 12, 2012: Queen, The Who &amp; more perform at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-12\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 12, 2012 &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Brian May<\/strong> and <strong>Roger Taylor<\/strong>, <strong>The Who<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>The Kinks<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Ray Davies<\/strong> were among the artists who performed at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, held at Olympic Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Queen\u2019s May and Taylor were joined by <strong>Jessie J<\/strong> to perform \u201cWe Will Rock You\u201d and Davies performed \u201cWaterloo Sunset.\u201d The Who closed the evening with a medley of three hits: &#8220;Baba O&#8217;Riley,&#8221; &#8220;See Me, Feel Me&#8221; and &#8220;My Generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dubbed A Symphony of British Music, the evening also featured <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> and <strong>Genesis<\/strong>\u2019<strong> Mike Rutherford<\/strong>, who performed Pink Floyd\u2019s \u201cWish You\u00a0Were Here&#8221; with <strong>Ed Sheeran<\/strong>. There were also\u00a0 performances by <strong>Madness<\/strong>,<strong> One Direction<\/strong>, <strong>Spice Girls<\/strong>, <strong>George Michael<\/strong>, <strong>Pet Shop Boys<\/strong>, <strong>Annie Lennox<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Muse<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 12, 2012 &#8230;\u00a0 Queen\u2019s Brian May and Roger Taylor, The Who\u00a0and The Kinks\u2019 Ray Davies were among the artists who performed at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, held at Olympic Stadium. Queen\u2019s May and Taylor were joined by Jessie J to perform \u201cWe Will<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-12-2012-queen-the-who-more-perform-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-london-olympics\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}