In Olympic 2012, Spice Girls leant for closing ceremony

The Spice Girls are expected to be among the diverse array of stars acting in Sunday's Olympic Games ending ceremony, entitled "A Symphony of British Music".

George Michael, Muse and Ed Sheeran have burst the ring of silence surrounding the event and confirmed they are among the acts taking part in the spectacle that brings the curtain down on the London 2012 Games.

Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham last week tweeted a picture of a microphone, saying "Look what I found!", while pictures of the 1990s girl group practicing on top of five London taxis have appeared in the British press.

The show at the 80,000 seat Olympic Stadium wills characteristic more than 4,000 performers, including 380 schoolchildren.

"We want it to be the best after show party there has ever been," its artistic director Kim Gavin said on Saturday. "Any more than that and we would spoil the surprise," Gavin told a press league.

The ceremony will see London hand over to the Rio 2016 Games, and the Olympic flame -- which has been alight at the east London stadium for 2 weeks -- will be eliminated.

The ceremony's pre-show amusement begins at 1900 GMT, with the main ceremony, from 2000 GMT, planned to last up to three hours.

Gavin, a choreographer who has developed some of Britain's biggest events in recent years including a concert for the late Princess Diana in 2007 and Take that tours, said the demonstrate would be a "mashed-up symphony" of British music.

The ceremony will start with a twenty minute "day in the life of London", the former ballet dancer brought out, with the soundtrack ranging from classical English composer Edward Elgar to "Waterloo Sunset" by 1960’s rockers The Kinks.

Kinks frontman Ray Davies has been leant to perform the song in person.

"It is an extraordinary show. I think it is everything we wanted," said Stephen Daldry, the ceremony's creative conductor & executive producer.

"The brief was to celebrate the athletes, to celebrate the offers, to celebrate London, the country and... the rest of the world that has come together for these extraordinary Games."

Daldry, a film director and producer best known for "Billy Elliot", also measured the show's designer Es Devlin, who has produced sets for Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Take That.

The show's musical director is David Arnold, who has written assembles for James Bond films.

Despite her surprise cameo appearance in the opening ceremony when she acted beside James Bond star Daniel Craig, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will not be attending, and neither will her husband Prince Philip.

They are at the monarch's buck private summer residence in Scotland.

"The Queen and Prince Philip are definitely staying at Balmoral," a spokesperson at Buckingham Palace told AFP.