Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and held each autumn in the English seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, England.
Known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for sixty-six days, from late August until early November. The light show is six miles long and uses over a million bulbs for the displays.
Beginning in 1934, The Big Switch On has featured a celebrity pulling a switch to turn on the lights. On Friday August 31, 1979, Kermit the Frog, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, and Sweetums turned on the big switch at 9:30 p.m.
Excerpt from The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter volume 2, number 3:
Light displays featuring likenesses of the Muppets included:
BLACKPOOL_Muppet_light.jpg|The Electric Mayhem...
BLACKPOOL_Muppet_light2.jpg|...Zoot...
fozzie light.JPG|...Fozzie Bear...
miss piggy light.JPG|...Miss Piggy...
gonzo light.JPG|...and Gonzo.
Blackpool.JPG|Kermit and Miss Piggy in a UK magazine article
Other celebrities who have flipped the big switch have included The Bee Gees, Shirley Bassey, Joanna Lumley, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Geri Halliwell. 
==External links==
* Official site
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Category:Live Appearances