Elbow to give soundtrack for London 2012 Olympics
It has recently been made public that the contemporary band Elbow is going to be providing its services to the British Broadcasting Corporation during the London 2012 Olympic Games next year.
Elbow is a band which has the honour of receiving the Mercury Music award and it now has the opportunity to provide its music as the soundtrack for the Summer Olympic Games next year. While the announcement of Elbow being the part of the Olympic Games was
being made, it was done alongside the revelation of the plan of the London 2012 festival as well as the cultural Olympiad.
Guy Garvey of Elbow made the following comments about being part of the Olympic Games next year: "We are knocked out to be involved and it's been quite a challenge. We have feelings of real responsibility as we will be the soundtrack to so many images of
personal sacrifice and endeavour while the nation roots for and celebrates with Team GB."
On the other hand, Mark Thompson, who is the director general of the BBC, expressed himself in the following manner: "Coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games and the Cultural Olympiad represents the biggest single broadcast event in the BBC's history. We want
to bring this unique sporting and cultural celebration to every household in the land.”
Apart from the above mentioned plans, BBC also plans to stage a Radio 1 Hackney Weekend. The event is planned to be of a very large scale and a free music event. BBC plans to make the Radio 1 Hackney Weekend the biggest event of its nature that has been
staged by the corporation. The program will include plays by Shakespeare and feature documentaries that shed light on the lives of famous artists such as David Hockney as well as Lucian Freud.
Next year will feature the third time that the Olympics will be staged in London, making the capital of England the first city in the world to have done so for a total of three times.
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