Live Music from The Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal and a soundtrack that featured The Eurythmics, Queen, David Bowie, The Kinks, The Sex Pistols' 'Pretty Vacant', The Jam, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Mud's 'Tiger Feet', the Rolling Stones and the Beatles amongst many many others rocked the Opening Ceremony at London 2012 last night in the Danny Boyle directed show that featured a cameo from Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean playing with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra in a tribute to 'Chariots of Fire', and Her Majesty the Queen arriving from Buckingham Palace 'by helicopter' with James Bond. The flag bearers for the Olympic flag included Muhammad Ali, and the Olympic flame was raced down the Thames in a speedboat by David Beckham who handed the torch over to Sir Steven Redgrave to enter the stadium - but the honour of lighting the amazing Olympic cauldron went to a group of seven young British athletes in a move to inspire a new generation of sporting heroes.
In a ceremony that included a team of flying Mary Poppins vanquishing J K Rowling's Voldemort, a Glastonbury Tor, a review of Britain's agricultural and industrial history led by Sir Kenneth Brannagh, and Emeli Sandé performing a brilliant live version of 'Abide with Me' - and after a slight technical hitch - Sir Paul McCartney closed the show with a barnstorming rendition of 'Hey Jude' with an 80,000 strong sing along.
