Blur: Olympic Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert – in pictures

Support from the Specials – Horace Panter, Lynval Golding and Nik Torp – was enthusiastically delivered and warmly received Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images

The Olympic closing ceremony concert was a celebration of British music past as Bernard Sumner, of New Order, also supported Blur Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images

Terry Hall, frontman of the Specials. The night was one of many moods – from giddy pop rushes to melancholy that all the Olympics jubilation had come to a close Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images

Blur performed on a stage designed to look like a motorway flyover, referring to their recent track Under the Westway Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images

Bassist Alex James seems to be focusing on his cigarette ash. Blur opened with an incendiary rendition of Girls and Boys Photograph: Rex Features

Damon Albarn dedicated the band's 1997 hit Song 2 to Team GB's gold medalist Mo Farah Photograph: Ian West/PA

Albarn has said the sold-out Hyde Park gig might be the band's final performance Photograph: Ian West/PA

The crowd roared their approval of Blur's affectionate hymns to the capital – London Loves, For Tomorrow and Under the Westway, the last of which Albarn said he wrote especially for the Hyde Park gig Photograph: Ki Price/Reuters

Former EastEnders star Phil Daniels, who featured on the original recording of Parklife, joined Albarn on stage for the song Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images

Daniels did his bit to keep up the bouncy mood in the park Photograph: Ki Price/Reuters

The best of British theme continued … with Harry Enfield's arrival on stage as a tea lady Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features

Tender moment … Enfield and Daniels Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features

Damon said Enfield was there 'to represent that great British institution – the tea lady'. The band ended the night with a rousing rendition of The Universal Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images