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Coldplay to perform at London 2012 Paralympic closing ceremony | Britain’s best-selling band Coldplay are set to headline
the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. They will take to the
stage at the Olympic Stadium on September 9 for the ceremony, titled Festival
of Flame. Frontman Chris Martin has called it “a great honour” and said the band
were “very happy to be involved.” They will be among more than 2,000 performers
at the event. The remaining tickets for the 11-day Paralympic Games went on general
sale on Monday. “It will be one of the biggest nights of our lives and we’re very
excited to try to create a performance for the last night of the games that will
close London 2012 in style,” the BBC quoted Martin as saying. The London 2012
Paralympics run from August 29 and will follow the Olympic Games, which take place
from July 27 to August 12. The closing ceremonies are being co-ordinated by artistic
director Kim Gavin, who has worked on Take That tours and staged the Concert For
Diana in 2007. “Our show will be a celebration of the UK as a centre for festivals,
which is a fitting finale to the amazing festival of sport that is the London
2012 Games,” he said. London 2012 chairman Lord Coe said he was “delighted” that
Coldplay had signed up to help them celebrate the “spectacular” event. “The athletes
involved in the Paralympic Games are incredible sportsmen and women and I urge
everyone to take this chance to be there and to form memories that will last a
lifetime,” he said.
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