Spice Girls and Others Set for Olympics Closing Ceremony

The opening ceremony for The 2012 Summer Olympics was a grandiose affair, with impressive stage effects and plenty of theatricality. It was low on live musical performances, though, as The Arctic Monkeys played a little Beatles followed by Paul McCartney himself, who still only played "Hey Jude."

The Closing Ceremony should be much different, judging by the people who have been showing up for rehearsals. Sources who have been watching the rehearsal area have seen the likes of the Spice Girls, members of Queen and the Pet Shop Boys all coming and going from rehearsals, indicating that they will be performing.

In fact, pop music seems to be the theme of the event: boy band One Direction is also rumored to be performing, as well as Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Muse, George Michael, and The Who.

That makes for quite an eclectic lineup, spanning decades of British pop music. The Opening Ceremony already did a by-the-decade sort of thing, so we probably won't see exactly that here, but it will be a very musical show indeed by the look of things.