{"id":43882,"date":"2010-08-10T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/10\/beatles-vs-rolling-stones-for-olympic-gig\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T05:24:00","slug":"beatles-vs-rolling-stones-for-olympic-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/10\/beatles-vs-rolling-stones-for-olympic-gig.html","title":{"rendered":"Beatles vs. Rolling Stones for Olympic Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the Daily Mail, it’s the biggest contest of the 2012 Olympics \u2013 The Beatles versus The Rolling Stones to headline the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

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Sirs Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney are battling to be the top name at the launch of the London Games.<\/p>\n

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The Rolling Stones and Macca, one of the two surviving Beatles, have both played at the American Super Bowl to worldwide \u00adaudiences of over 100million.\n<\/p>\n

But they know Games chiefs will only pick one of them.<\/p>\n

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An Olympics source revealed: \u201cThe 2012 Olympics opening \u00adceremony is going to be \u00adspectacular.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt has to be to kick off the event in great British style. Everyone wants to be a part of this historical happening and what is great for us is The Rolling Stones and Paul \u00adMcCartney are interested in playing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey both have an outstanding catalogue of hit after hit that everyone across the world knows.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Stones and McCartney can easily carry off something of this magnitude on the world stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re looking at the American Super Bowl\u2019s half-time show \u2013 which they have played at \u2013 as the kind of thing we\u2019re going for with the opening ceremony. It would be great to have both but there can only be one headliner.”<\/p>\n

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