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Pictures from Olympic Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert
Source: Guardian UK
Support from the Specials – Horace Panter, Lynval Golding and Nik Torp – was enthusiastically delivered and warmly received Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Image
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
The Olympic closing ceremony concert was a celebration of British music past as Bernard Sumner, of New Order, also supported BlurPhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Terry Hall, frontman of the Specials. The night was one of many moods – from giddy pop rushes to melancholy that all the Olympics jubilation had come to a closePhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Blur performed on a stage designed to look like a motorway flyover, referring to their recent track Under the WestwayPhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Bassist Alex James seems to be focusing on his cigarette ash. Blur opened with an incendiary rendition of Girls and BoysPhotograph: Rex Features
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Damon Albarn dedicated the band's 1997 hit Song 2 to Team GB's gold medalist Mo FarahPhotograph: Ian West/PA
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Albarn has said the sold-out Hyde Park gig might be the band's final performancePhotograph: Ian West/PA
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
The crowd roared their approval of Blur's affectionate hymns to the capital – London Loves, For Tomorrow and Under the Westway, the last of which Albarn said he wrote especially for the Hyde Park gig Photograph: Ki Price/Reuters
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Former EastEnders star Phil Daniels, who featured on the original recording of Parklife, joined Albarn on stage for the songPhotograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Daniels did his bit to keep up the bouncy mood in the parkPhotograph: Ki Price/Reuters
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
The best of British theme continued … with Harry Enfield's arrival on stage as a tea lady Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Tender moment … Enfield and DanielsPhotograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
Damon said Enfield was there 'to represent that great British institution – the tea lady'. The band ended the night with a rousing rendition of The UniversalPhotograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images
Link SchoolSchool of English in LondonNorthumberland HousePopes Lane, EalingLondon, W5 4NG, UK
www.linkschool.co.uk
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