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Critics applaud Olympic closing ceremony

SOURCE: BBC
The London Olympics closing ceremony, which featured music stars from The Who to The Spice Girls, has been broadly welcomed by the world's critics.
According to The Guardian, the event was "a kaleidoscopic spectacle" that showed "the energy of British popular culture over the past few decades".
The Independent called it "eccentric, bewildering and shameless good fun".
The Telegraph said the show was "meant to be about cheese - an unabashed, honking hunk of over ripe Stilton".
The ceremony, wrote the newspaper's music editor Bernadette McNulty, was "pitched somewhere between a wedding reception and tuning into Magic FM".
Yet her review did bemoan the "obvious" absence of such "top-drawer" stars as David Bowie and Kate Bush and said the three-and-a-half hour event was "way too long".
Ballerina Darcey Bussell was among the other stars involved in the event
"This all-star mix of live and pre-recorded music was a major crowd-pleaser,” declared David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter, saying the event would be "regarded
as a wonderfully chaotic treasure trove by some and a hot mess by others".
The result, he continued, "echoed the fun, freewheeling spirit and quirky humour established by director Danny Boyle in his divisive opening ceremony”.
The New Zealand Herald described the event at the Olympic Stadium in east London as "a pop culture smorgasbord that had touches of brilliance, beauty and bewilderment".
Yet its critic TYoy Rawhiti-Forbes expressed reservations about comedian Russell Brand's "tuneless" contribution and George Michael's performance of his new single White Light.
"If there had been remote controls here in the stadium people might have been reaching for them,” he suggested.
The Times' critic Will Hodgkinson also bemoaned the "notable” absence of The Rolling Stones, Emeli Sande's "underwhelming" rendition of Read All About It and Ray Davies' "croaky” Waterloo Sunset.
Overall, though, Hodgkinson concluded that the "joy-
ful and welcoming" occasion "celebrated a side of British life too often dismissed as frivolous".
The Pet Shop Boys, Take That, Jessie J and Monty Python star Eric Idle were among the other performers who took to a stage modelled on the Union Jack adorned with representations of familiar London landmarks.
Non-musical contributions came from actor Timothy Spall, dancer Darcey Bussell, dance troupe Stomp and the acrobatic ensemble Spelbound, 2010 winners of Britain's Got Talent.
Before the event, artistic director Kim Gavin said the ceremony would serve as an "after-show party" to the sporting competition and that it would celebrate "great British popular music".
The former ballet dancer, one of the UK's leading creative directors and choreographers, previously produced the 2007 Concert For Diana and Take That's Circus and Progress tours.