A warm up and for those who weren’t there

Closing ceremony’s got a Stakhanovite twist

‘n’ Pet Shop Boys’ pointy hats t’ can’t be missed
One direction past by anti-clockwise
While Waterloo sunset brought a tear to my eyes

Many nations, many flags
Earth’s athletes pass 80,000 fans
Ben Ainslie ’s our champion bearer
The highest decorated GB sailor

Shoulder to shoulder, no spite, no war
USA, China, North Korea, Singapore

Smiling, waving as audiences clap

Shepherded by volunteers in electric blue light bulb hats
Cyprus, Guatemala and Granada at last
Celebrate a break from metal-less past

Kate Bush’s running uphill cubic boxes

Slow time zigurrat tribal performances
Marathon medallists take the stage
Uganda and Kenya wait an age

Bohemian Rhapsody’s sine wave
Followed by Lennon’s Imagine costumed imaginatively
A deaf, sign-language choir

Sing to assemble the late bard’s face

Freedom sings George Michael
As audience pixels graphically equalize
Athlete’s pound the air in might
For Games Makers once again celebrated tonight

Mod-ley, The Who saves us from George Michael’s wailing
Pinball Wizard the Kaiser Chiefs resurrect
Mind bending for David Bowie

British Glamour ‘fashion’ escorted by fascist space cadets
Entombed in cages, the models dance
Campbell, Cole, Moss, no designers

Annie Lennox rides the black pearl
With bustled masquerade entourage
Wish You Were Here flame cover welcomes
Russell Brand to hippy mania

Norman Cook’s Right Here Right Now
As the giant vampire squid coagulates
Sexy policewomen and cosplay ballerinas gesticulate
‘Money money money’ squawks Jessie J

Tinie Tempah passes to Taio Cruz
In Rolls Royces circling the crop

Cast back to 1996 with Spice Girls Wannabe
Cam, Sam Cam and Boris jiving
Wonderwall’s Oasis recalls Thatcher’s Cracked street legacy of wont and grime

People say ‘The British are mad and this proves it’

Cannonball Lee Evans became Eric Idle
And we Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
The Romans upstaged by Bollywood dancers
Plus operatic trident wielding Britannia

And a Romanic chorus line with bag pipes
Forget Muse for a moment
Larger than life Freddy Mercury sings from beyond the grave
And Brian May riffs to Fox-Badger arms

Preparing for an apex climax with Jessie J
Mounted for the electric blues now groped by athletes
‘We will, we will, rock you’
And we all stand for the Ptolemaic anthem of Greece,

Britain’s Olympic jackets are made by NEXT
And the Welsh glugby choir is drunk?
Military men march off with the Technicolor rings
Bojo gamely passes the tatty flag to a Rio bloke

Brazil colours wash over the tired eyed Rogge
Their gift to the re-ignites the working man

‘Samba samba samba’
The ocean passes majestically

This is my world of culture, beauty
It’s contextual, historic, haunting
In pursuit of GB’s game changer
Mega-sid techno priest and a pimp daddy

No slavish pop music
Tricolour beauties embrace fluorescent man
On the ramps, women undress
Then incognito Pelé reveals himself

A mega-ripple for Coe:

‘Thank you to the people who built the stadiums,

‘Who built a new community in the city’
America’s costumes going back in time

Rogge: Celebrations to continue as we admire
The prowess of the paralympic games.

‘These were happy and glorious games’

I call on the youth of the world
To assemble in Rio in four years time
For the 31st Olympiad of the modern era

And Heatherwick’s cauldron demounts
To Take That and a phoenix
‘The UK’s favourite boy-man band’
Darcy Bacon descends to the Royal Ballet’s 200 super spikes
Reverb cut-off punk remony

Ember-like phoenix presides over
The extinguishing Olympic flame
And Baba O'riley by The Real Who

Marks then end of 16 days of fantastic sport and emotional mayhem

Transcribed exactly as it came to me on the night of the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony, 12 August 2012