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Story: Jack Foley
MUSIC legend, James Brown, will join Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne,
to perform live in London, as part of the free Olympic Torch Concert
taking place on Saturday, June 26.
The one-off event will also feature the likes of Jamelia, Emma
Bunton, Will Young, McFly, and the cast of the hit musical, Tonight's
The Night, as the capital plays its part in the preparations for
this Summer's showpiece sporting event.
The gig has been organised by Visit London and the Greater London
Authority, and is designed to showcase the best of the musical
worlds of pop, rock and soul.
It will take place in The Mall and will be free to the public
- with over 70,000 tickets to be allocated by ballot.
The public can apply for tickets by telephone and also online.
The ticket telephone hotline - 090 11 12 13 14 - opened on Wednesday,
June 2, and will remain open until noon on Wednesday, June 9 (inclusive).
All calls are charged at local rate within the UK and will cost
a maximum of 25p. Charges may differ for mobile phones.
From noon, on Friday, June 4, ticket applications can also be
made online at www.visitlondon.com
Successful ticket applicants will be decided by ballot and mailed
tickets
at the latest, by June 21.
The Olympic Torch Concert will be a landmark event for London
and the
UK, on what promises to be a day of excitement and historic significance.
The Mall, for the first time ever, will become a gigantic open-air
venue,
linking sport and music, with access restricted to the ticket
holders.
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Rock legend, Rod Stewart, will also headline and will be performing
classic hits, including tracks with the cast of his hit West End
musical, Tonight's The Night.
And the concert will also feature soul legend, James Brown, as
well as other artists who have yet to be announced.
The entertainment for ticket holders runs from 2pm until 8pm,
with the concert broadcast live on BBC1 from 6pm until 7.30pm,
and hosted by Jamie Theakston.
The Mall, the site of so much pageant and history, will become
the stage, with the audience on either side.
Giant screens will show the progress of The ATHENS 2004 Olympic
Torch Relay presented by Coca Cola and Samsung, as well as the
day's entertainment and concert.
The concert will provide a historic grand finale to the Olympic
Torch Relay through London - the first time the Olympic flame
has visited the UK since 1948.
Throughout the day, the Olympic flame will be carried through
11 London Boroughs, by 140 torch-bearers, formed from a mix of
'extraordinary ordinary' people of all ages, from Nadia Abdulla,
age 14,
from Morden, in Surrey, through to James Bryce, age 72, from Fife,
in Scotland, plus stars such as Tim Henman, Jonathan Edwards,
Colin Jackson and Heather Mills McCartney.
Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four-minute
mile, in 1954, will start the relay, from Wimbledon, and Sir Steve
Redgrave, five-times Olympic Gold medallist, will run the final
leg of the relay into The Mall.
David Campbell, Chief Executive of Visit London, commentedd:
"We are enormously proud to be associated with the Olympic
flame's visit to London, and are delighted at the support we have
been given by all the artists for what will be a spectacular concert
and day of
entertainment.
"Visit London wanted to stage an event that encompassed
the ethos of the Olympic ideal, bringing it to the people in one
of the world's most famous capital cities.
"We are confident that the Olympic Torch Concert and all
the events on June 26 will do just that."
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