New Order performed at Hyde Park with Blur and The Specials to celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

In February 2012, Blur were awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 2012 Brit Awards.

That August, Blur headlined a show at Hyde Park for the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

In February 2012, Blur were awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 2012 Brit Awards.

That August, Blur headlined a show at Hyde Park for the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

The Specials performed at Hyde Park with Blur and New Order to celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

DEF Digby were the first band to play the 100 Club in 2012, followed by many of the UK's top acts including Blur, Paul Weller, The Zarrs, Pretty Young Things and The Knights Of The Realm.

Titles in the SSX series include, in order of release: SSX Tricky, SSX 3, SSX on Tour, SSX Blur, and a sequel / reboot released in 2012, SSX.

Phil Daniels re-united onstage with Blur to perform a rendition of the song at the band's headline slot at Glastonbury Festival 2009 and at the band's concerts in Hyde Park, London in July 2009 and August 2012 and at the 2012 Brit awards.

On the official Blur forum, the song was voted ( by overall average ) the best song on Modern Life is Rubbish in 2012, narrowly beating " Colin Zeal " which resided in second place.

In February 2012, they received planning permission for the site and the centre is scheduled to be opened by late 2013.

The two airmen had been NCOICs in medical units deployed to the War in Afghanistan and received the medals in March 2012.

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

In 2012, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

In 2010 the Space Needle Corporation submitted a proposal for an exhibition of Chihuly's work at a site in the Seattle Center, in competition with proposals for other uses from several other groups. The project, which sees the new Chihuly exhibition hall occupy the site of the former Fun Forest amusement park in the Seattle Center park and entertainment complex, received the final green light from the Seattle City Council on April 25, 2011. Divisive Dale Chihuly Glass-Art " Museum " Approved for Former Seattle Amusement Park ARTINFO. com It opened May 21, 2012. Chihuly Garden and Glass Opens with Dedication Ceremony on Monday, May 21 prnewswire. comDale Chihuly's ' Glass House ' shines in Seattle publicbroadcasting. net

A two-minute fight scene in the pub shown in August 2012 received just one complaint to Ofcom from a viewer who felt it was too violent ; Ofcom said they would investigate.

As an example, Mexico started to export irradiated guava to the U. S. in 2008 and mango, sweet lime, manzano pepper in 2009 ; and has received approval for citrus and star fruit with exports to initiate in 2012.

It received its New York premiere in 2012, produced by Repertorio Español.

In 2012, Kain received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The € 98. 5m expansion of the Islamic Art galleries in 2012 received state funding of € 31 million, as well as € 17 million from the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation founded by the eponymous Saudi prince.

For studies starting in autumn 2012, Lund received 11, 160 foreign master's applications from 152 countries, which was roughly one third of all international applications to Swedish universities.

In May 2012, Land's End received widespread attention as the starting point of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.

It also charted very high in many charts globally and has already received certifications in U. K, Canada and Australia as of 2012.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

On April 30, 2012, King published an article in The Daily Beast calling for rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as " a practical necessity and moral imperative that those who have received much should be obligated to pay ... in the same proportion ".

In 2012 the university received 3261 applications for the 150 available places on their Master in Science programs.

On May 5, 2012, Gary Johnson received the Libertarian Party's official nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

Despite the critically acclaimed Virtua Fighter 5 releasing to very little fanfare in 2007, its update Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown has received much more attention in 2012 due to the renewed interest in fighting games.

In September 2012, Brad Birkenfeld received a $ 104 million prize for revealing how the wealthy use Swiss Banks to avoid taxes.

On June 29, 2012 Ono received a " Lifetime Achievement " award in Dublin.

* Matz received the 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) at the 2012 LibrePlanet conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston.

Aniston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 22, 2012.

Furthermore, Gallagher and Albarn met and shared " a warm embrace " at the 2012 Brit Awards.

He was the first Irish citizen to sing at the Olympics games in London 2012, and win a Brit Award, and three MTV Video Music Awards.

Lemar has also won two Brit Awards and three MOBO Awards to date and is due to release his fifth studio album in 2012.

In March 2012 Ribbons was the featured vocalist on the title track of the Alonestar EP " Warrior ", a release which also featured English singer-songwriter and Brit Award winner Ed Sheeran, who Ribbons features alongside on the track " All Falls Down " from the same EP.

J. R Richards recently attended the 2012 Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London, England.

It is widely known for hosting the Brit Awards for ten years from 2000 to 2010 and a number of other well-publicised events, and was used as a venue for the 2012 Olympic Games.

He also won a 2010 Brit Award in the Best Single Category for JLS ' Beat Again " and been nominated for the 2011 Brit Best Single Award for The Wanted ' All Time Low ' and also 2012 for The Wanted ' Glad You Came '

On 18 June 2012 Brit Group announced the sale of its subsidiary Brit Insurance Limited ( BIL ) to RiverStone Group with a view to focusing on its Lloyd's underwriting business ..

In March 2012 the PBS network broadcast a feature length documentary about the life and music of Don McLean called " American Troubadour " produced by 4-time Emmy Award winning film maker Jim Brown.

* 7 May 2012: Atlantic Council's Distinguished Humanitarian Award

King's next novel, 11 / 22 / 63, was published November 8, 2011, and was nominated for the 2012 World Fantasy Award Best Novel.

The show will come to Broadway in the fall of 2012, and will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall.

* UK's Critics ' Circle 2011 Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts, March 2012, for " what is effectively a lifetime achievement award ", as Mark Shenton ( Drama section chairman ) commented.

On 13 August, 2012, this project was officially announced to be The Zero Theorem, set to start shooting in Bucharest on October 22, produced by Dean Zanuck ( son to the late Richard D. Zanuck who was to originally produce in 2009 ), worldwide sales handled by Voltage Pictures, Toronto and starring Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz in the lead, replacing Billy Bob Thornton who had been attached to the project in 2009.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

On January 24, 2012, Close received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, her first nomination since 1989, and her sixth Oscar nomination overall.

Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012.

On April 6, 2011, The Recording Academy announced a drastic overhaul of many Grammy Award categories for 2012.

In 2012, the Horror Writers Association gave I Am Legend the special Vampire Novel of the Century Award.

* 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award

Witten has been honored with numerous awards including a MacArthur Grant ( 1982 ), the Fields Medal ( 1990 ), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ( 2000 ), the National Medal of Science ( 2002 ), Pythagoras Award ( 2005 ), the Henri Poincaré Prize ( 2006 ), the Crafoord Prize ( 2008 ), the Lorentz Medal ( 2010 ) the Isaac Newton Medal ( 2010 ) and the Fundamental Physics Prize ( 2012 ).

Wings was the first of two silent films, the other being The Artist at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In April 2012 it was announced as the winner of the 2012 Rondo Award for ' Book of the Year '.

In November 2011, the New Students ' Centre was recognised a low environmental impact building, receiving ' Outstanding ' status under BREEAM, and in 2012 was one of three winners of the New London Award ( NLA ) in the Education category.

In 2012, the installation was honored as the best Air Force base in the world when it collectively earned the Commander-In Chief ( CINC ) Installation Excellence Award, beating out 161 USAF installations eligible for honors.

* 2012: portrait on EarthE Award

* On February 11, 2012, multi-Grammy Award winning singer Whitney Houston drowned in the bathtub of room 434 at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

On September 23, 2012, Louis-Dreyfus was awarded the prestigious Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation ( 2003 ), that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore ( 1998 ), The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ( 2004 ) and Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 ).

* Fannie Flagg, author, actress, 2012 recipient of the Harper Lee Award