{"id":472,"date":"2012-07-28T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=472"},"modified":"2012-07-28T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:03:22","slug":"arctic-monkeys-olympics-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/472\/arctic-monkeys-olympics-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Monkeys&#8217; Olympics Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-473\" title=\"Arctic Monkeys Olympics Performance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/arctic-monkeys-olympics-performance-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Arctic Monkeys Olympics Performance\" width=\"236\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/arctic-monkeys-olympics-performance-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/arctic-monkeys-olympics-performance.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>Tonight was the opening ceremony for the 2012 summer Olympic Games in London, England, featuring performances by Sir Paul McCartney, Arctic Monkeys and many more.<!--more--> Though an actual former Beatle was present to perform one of their most beloved hits, &#8220;Hey Jude,&#8221; the Arctic Monkeys&#8217; &amp; Co. offered up their own homage to the great British quartet. In addition to playing the breakout single from their debut LP,\u00a0<em>Whatever People Say I Am, That&#8217;s What I&#8217;m Not<\/em>, they did <em>Abbey Road<\/em> opening track &#8220;Come Together,&#8221; complete with Turner donning a John Lennon-esque\u00a0coif &#8212; a nod to the iconic style of early rockabilly musicians.<\/p>\n<p>With the stadium lights low, winged glow-in-the-dark performers help set the mood for the classic cut, which included a healthy dose of reverence to the original while retaining enough of the trademark Arctic Monkeys sound to give both bands their due for millions of viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Official video footage of both songs hasn&#8217;t been made available by the Olympics just yet, but in the meantime, audio of the Beatles cover surfaced:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Come Together&#8221; (The Beatles Cover)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9HSc-f_6YQg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was the opening ceremony for the 2012 summer Olympic Games in London, England, featuring performances by Sir Paul McCartney, Arctic Monkeys and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}