British pop songstress Leona Lewis gave her best performance during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games held at the Olympic stadium in Beijing on Sunday, August 24. Teaming up with veteran guitarist Jimmy Page, both stars thrilled the audience, singing Led Zeppelin's classic hit "Whole Lotta Love." Their special performance was meant to mark the end of the 2008 games and the official handover ahead of the London 2012 event.
Lewis took the stage at the top of a metal podium, whereas Page started playing his guitar from below. Singing the first part of the song, Lewis then lowered down so that she and Page could sing the final section of the song together. Appearing on another part in the arena was soccer star David Beckham who kicked a ball into the crowd at the end of the track.
The closing ceremony was also liven up by hundreds of dancers, acrobats and drummers. In addition to those performers, there were also Spanish tenor Placido Domingo and Chinese soprano star Song Zuying who also performed a duet during the event, attended by massive crowd.
Lewis and Page's duet at the Olympic closing ceremony was recorded on the video below.
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this was probaly the best performance by leona. She wasn't mimming, but i'm not so sure about page....but that performance ROCKED MY SOCKS!!!!!
uh about Page scratching himself at 0:59, well if any of you know how to play the riff he couldve just hammered that part on then gone back to strumming the cords. the sound is already so weak itd be hard to tell...
i luv Jimmy Page!
I posted before the jimmy was miming and i want to apoligise for that because please remember that they are in china so it probably isnt there fault because china do thing different!!
leona was amazing as usual as usual jimmy is weird his lips went a bit crazy why they have her a rock balad ill never know
lol look at leona teasing him. I bet he wished he was 20 years younger
Since75: Try to Google unsyncronised audio/video. It's a common issue, especially on Youtube. Also, you neeed to understand that in that performance the sound appears to be picked up by the crowd mic's rather than being played through the main sound system (don't know why, but that's why the sound seems weak). If that is the case, then you need to understand that we see her lips moving because light travels at the speed of light, but the sound only travels at the speed of sound, so a slight delay gets built in. This is the same problem you often hear in a stadium where the national anthem is being sung. The singer's voice is right next to the microphone, but the crowd are often a long way from the crowd mic's and that builds up a delay. Didn't you do physics at school? Simple test. Let off a firework. You see it explode before you hear it!!!
It's the video sync that is out!! Do'nt you lot know anything? When the video got captured and converted the video and autio are out of sync. This is a very common issue on Youtube.
MPSKENTUK, okay, you right, you're know everything, you're the expert, and everybody else knows nothing. I love Authoritarians. So, only those musical sections are out of sync and the rest of the video/audio is in sync, kinda of odd. if it was out of sync, would not the entire video/audio be out of sync or does?
yea, Leona is faking it too, check exactly at 0:26, is enough to tell the mouth does not match the vocals. hey, at least she sang on the soundtrack being used. might have actually recorded the vocal tracks at the same time page/band put down their tracks. wonder if page mix the master, he usually is the master mind behind the console?
Jimmy is mimming the guitar look at 56 seconds he scratches himself while playing!!
gotta say, true at 0:59 to 1:01 page is off. I got thousands of $$$ tied up in zep live stuff (BIG fan), and that is a little disappointing to see page agree to it, but the only reasoning could be the whole stituation (page at the olympics, come on, there's got to be better things for him to be doing), venue size, no prior opportunity to rehearsal, or any number of reasons for page to fake it. not typical page/zep style. but regardless, he wrote the song, it still came out of his head. if he had to put it together to be played back as he makes an appearance, so be it. if you see him live at his shows, you know he NEVER fakes it, he is so improv there's no way to fake what he does live. just a few cents worth.
i love jimmy but i think on this performence he was mime-guitaring just look at 59 to 1:01 his scrachin himself and its still playin:(( i dont care tho coz its the fact that jimmy was there and is still and will always be a rock god
listen pgp1971, u r a waste of egg and perm, jimmy page is not. end of story. And P diddy? really? man hasnt performed in like 6 billion yrs. Im ean jesus christ, come on
page is a living god. he blew my mind, as for leona, page should keep her if plant wants to keep screwing around.
Leona did not mine for a fact! you obviously dont know who she is or didnt see her x-factor performace!! she doesnt need to mine! (btw - she never recorded this song before to be able to mime it!) I HATE WHEN PEOPLE START SAYING .. OHH THERE MIMEING WHEN THERE CLEARLY NOT!!
I don't know about Jimmy Page.. but Leona definitely was not miming.
p-diddy puffy combs?? What's that then, a new breakfast cereal?
page still rocks!!!
jimmy page is god, you ignorant shit. the reason why "sean p-diddy puffy combs" didn't perform is because it was to hand over the torch to London with English representatives.
Page is playing, he has never milli-vanillied a performance, I have seen him many times in concert and he has always been razor sharp, the audio has to be recorded correctly to capture the proper sound live or you need to be there, but you who criticize him here are not even worthy to shine his shoes and have not seen him live, he is at his best then. I bet you don't even listen or like Led Zeppelin, you don't rock.
Wow. Page was amazing... to the person who said his performance was shameful, what planet are you on?
It wasn't shameful - it was mimed like all the other performances.
another shameful performance by jimmy page. they should have got sean p-diddy puffy combs to join in the lame performance. after watching the ceremony in Beijing , london should be ashamed of themselves.