With royalty and rock, Britain opens its Olympics

Friday, July 27, 2012 ~ Updated 6:25 PM

LONDON (AP) -- The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who.

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