The acts rumoured to have turned down the offer to play at the Olympic Closing Ceremony on Sunday August 12 include David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Rolling Stones and Kate Bush.
According to the Guardian, all of the above artists were approached, but declined the invite to take part in the £15m show from the ceremony's producer Kim Gavin.
Carl Barat from The Libertines also took to Twitter during the ceremony to say that him and his former bandmates ...
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