Deeping wrote:
I think you missed my point, maybe I wrote it badly. I thought the closing ceremony was to promote Britain to the rest of the world and what it stood for. I sited FM as not typically British, was I wrong in your opinion. I said they showed him on a video, why not use a performance of some who is here with use, live as it were instead of a recording? Promoting Britain for what it is now not what it was by using an old recording.

OK I can see your point there (though not with your first post referring to Aids/being Gay). I guess the point is that Freddie Mercury / Queen achieved/still have immense global recognition - not to mention dressing up in crowns etc! Not sure who'd you pick as a really modern icon though. Obviously there is Stones/McCartney/Bowie, but they are just as rooted in the 60s/70s as Queen.
Getting wildly off topic here...the curious thing about Freddie Mercury was that I never even realised he was Asian in origin until way after his death. I suspect if he was starting out now, he'd be hailed as the first British Asian mega star. In the 70s, that side wasn't exactly suppressed but certainly wasn't mentioned. I guess that actually says something itself about how the UK is changing.

Anyway, back to the scooters, how did they all manage a complete circuit of the arena without one breaking down???

I'd still like to know who the bloody hell they were? Anyone in the smoke know?

Deeping wrote:
I think you missed my point, maybe I wrote it badly. I thought the closing ceremony was to promote Britain to the rest of the world and what it stood for. I sited FM as not typically British, was I wrong in your opinion. I said they showed him on a video, why not use a performance of some who is here with use, live as it were instead of a recording? Promoting Britain for what it is now not what it was by using an old recording.

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OK you wrote it badly. Like Mr Grumpy said, I never even know he was asian until relatively recently and they did use people who are here now or did you switch off for Russell Brand and Jessie Jay/ Taio Cruz..... oh and Lennon's dead too so he shouldn't have featured, but I'd rather watch a video of him than have to put up with listening to Paul McCartney struggling to sing live again.

And back to the scooters.


A colleague of mine said her Fiance's brother owns a scooter shop and they provided some of them.... but I have no idea what shop that is, I'll ask her.

But this is about some of them:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/great_cornar ... _1_1480705

It seems nobody here reads the East Anglian Daily Times....

" ...The group, which included riders from Clacton, Colchester, Braintree and Sible Hedingham, only got a brief chance to see what they were letting themselves in for just before the event started.
One of them, John Hedges, of Braintree, said: “The overwhelming emotion before we went out was of sheer terror when you saw all those thousands of people watching.
“It was a huge responsibility and after having ridden the scooter 50 miles from Essex to London in the morning, my biggest fear was that it was going to let me down.”
According to 60-year-old Gordon Mac, who also took part in the ceremony, the Suffolk/Essex border area has seen a big revival in the Mod scene in recent years – a trend that is set to grow following cycling champion Bradley Wiggins’ interest in the scene, and the closing ceremony..."

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/great_cornar ... _1_1480705

I just posted the link.... Lol

Great minds..... Lol

Brilliant! Real people...

MrGrumpy wrote: I suspect if he was starting out now, he'd be hailed as the first British Asian mega star. In the 70s, that side wasn't exactly suppressed but certainly wasn't mentioned. I guess that actually says something itself about how the UK is changing.

Englebert Humperdinck fans might dispute that Freddie Mercury was the first British Asian megastar...?

gn2 wrote:

MrGrumpy wrote: I suspect if he was starting out now, he'd be hailed as the first British Asian mega star. In the 70s, that side wasn't exactly suppressed but certainly wasn't mentioned. I guess that actually says something itself about how the UK is changing.

Englebert Humperdinck fans might dispute that Freddie Mercury was the first British Asian megastar...?

Where does he come from then???