Post-war, for the 1948 London Olympics, organisers embraced the idea of the torch relay.
This music will be introduced in May with the start of the Torch Relay and will be used throughout the Games.
The torch relay will set off from Nottingham Castle the following morning.
The torch relay is an event, a happening, the social gathering of communities many of which don't unite round much else these days.
Was it the sight of large crowds braving horizontal rain and sharp winds to cheer the torch relay on its journey to Stratford?
The torch relay is due to visit Derby on 29 June and Peter Allen, director of marketing for the university, said he was keen to support the event.
Eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist David Roberts, who hopes to compete in the 50, 100 and 400m freestyle events next year described the torch relay as "a fantastic idea".
In May, Wrexham assembly member Lesley Griffiths wrote to the chair of the London 2012 Olympic Organising Committee to ask that Wrexham be included in the torch relay route.
The Commonwealth Games may come second to the Olympics when it comes to the world's biggest multi-sports events, but the baton relay is actually far more extensive than the torch relay.
She dressed up as a sausage to welcome the Olympic torch relay to the town but her costume was criticised by people who said it looked rude.
The incident occurred in January 2002 just outside school grounds when the Olympic torch relay was moving through the Alaska capital on its way to the Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter Games.
Stoke Park is also the venue for a free event celebrating the end of the Olympic torch relay through Surrey on 20 July, with Guildford the last overnight stop before the torch enters London.
Demonstrations dogged the Olympic torch relay during its journey around the world.
Crew members from Beaumaris took part in a memorable leg of the Olympic torch relay, as they ferried the flame from the town to Menai Bridge.
"I think we've done the best torch relay that I have ever witnessed and the interest is extraordinary, " he said in June at the Beyond Sport award in London, according to The Telegraph.
The centre was also responsible for training 250 volunteers to help during the Olympic torch relay last year.
If chosen, he will be given the opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame for one of the legs of the Olympic Torch Relay.
The torch will be taken on a 130-day journey around the world in what is said to be the longest torch relay in Olympic history.
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The family have been told that a search due to take place in the summer did not happen because PSNI resources were needed at the Irish Open Golf and the Olympic torch relay.
Rio and London carnival artists collaborated for the Hackney One Carnival to welcome the Olympic Torch Relay, screenings of restored Hitchcock films at east London venues and a fantastic program of theater, dance and outdoor events at the Barbican and with the Create festival.
Commuters have been warned they could face heavy congestion with the arrival of the Paralympic Games Torch Relay in London and the opening ceremony at the Olympic Park on 29 August.
Its "rainbow run", like the Olympics' torch relay, carries a rainbow flag through many of the games' participating cities.
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay, taking the flame around the world before the games begin in August, was always a risk.
Combined with the ubiquitous Olympics flags and the Nazi-inspired torch relay that has been touring the country, the presence of soldiers on the streets has created the atmosphere of an occupation.
Any in the path of the summer's Olympic Torch relay will know the fickle nature of a transitory event.
The 2012 Olympic torch relay will stop in Nottingham, it has been announced.
The fictional London borough of Walford, the home of EastEnders, is to be a location on the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay route.
Gerry Adams has personally criticised Owen Paterson and there are strong rumours of tensions between Caral Ni Chuilin and the NIO behind the scenes of the recent Olympic Torch relay.
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