Get a closer look at the stunning white-and-gold guitar H.E.R. used at the Olympics closing ceremony – while Tom Cruise rappelled from the roof of the Stade de France
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have officially come to a close, marking the end of an exhilarating 19 days of sporting extravaganza.
As the festivities drew to a close, the Stade de France transformed into a dazzling arena for the closing ceremony, with a star-studded lineup of performers taking turns to light up the night. Among them was R&B musician H.E.R., who brought the house down with a powerful rendition of the US national anthem.
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Armed with a Fender Stratocaster – an instrument the 27-year-old has long had an affinity with – H.E.R. rocked out to the The Star Spangled Banner in the heart of the French capital.
As Fender reveals, the stunning white and gold electric guitar H.E.R. was seen shredding on is a custom-built Strat crafted by luthier Brian Thrasher. The guitar uses Ultra Noiseless Vintage single-coil pickups and features a Modern “D” shape satin-finish neck for smooth action. Elsewhere, the guitar features an Arctic Pearl White-finished alder body with sculpted rear contours for “enhanced playability”, and a 22-fret 10″-14″ compound-radius fingerboard.
Credit: Fender
Credit: Fender
Later in the evening, H.E.R. welcomed Hollywood star Tom Cruise as he made a dramatic entrance to the iconic theme song of Mission: Impossible. The actor rappelled from the stadium roof of the Stade de France, thrilling audiences as he descended to seize the Olympic flag during the ceremonial handover to Los Angeles, the host city for the 2028 Games.
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This year’s Games have showcased quite the lineup of artists, with French extreme metal outfit Gojira surprising the world last month with their appearance at the Paris opening ceremony.
The band – the first of its kind to perform at the Olympics – captivated audiences around the world with an absolutely wicked rendition of the 19th-century anthem Ah! Ça Ira!, a song steeped in French revolutionary history. Frontman Joe Duplantier told The New York Times of their show: “It was a very bloody era of French history, so it was very metal.”
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