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"Fly" is a song by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. It was released on April 16, 2015, for digital download by the Special Olympics, Inc. Lavigne released the song as a charity single for the Avril Lavigne Foundation to support the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The song was written by Lavigne, Chad Kroeger and David Hodges. All the ...
The Olympic Hymn (Greek: Ολυμπιακός Ύμνος, pronounced [oli(m)bi̯aˈkos ˈimnos]), also known as the Olympic Anthem, is a choral cantata by opera composer Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917), with Demotic Greek lyrics by Greek poet Kostis Palamas.
Olympic songs and anthems are adopted officially by International Olympic Committee (or by official broadcasters and partners selected by IOC), to be used prior to the Olympic Games and to accompany the games during the event. They are used as theme music in TV broadcast and also used in advertising campaigns for the Olympic Games. Some songs ...
Forever Friends is a song written by Italian composer Giorgio Moroder and Chinese pianist Xiang-Dong Kong. It competed in the selection of the theme song for the 2008 Summer Olympics and was officially released on November 29, 2007.
The work is Williams' fourth composition for the Olympics, after 1984's "Olympic Fanfare and Theme," 1988's "The Olympic Spirit," and 1996's "Summon the Heroes." This song was used at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece as the torch was brought into the stadium during the opening ceremony.
The song was originally featured as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, New York. [1] The TV network ABC had used Mangione's recordings four years earlier during their coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the then President of ABC Sports, Roone Arledge, asked the musician to create the theme song for the Winter games. [1]
"Caliban's Dream" is a track written by Rick Smith [1] of electronic group Underworld for the Isles of Wonder (the opening ceremony of the 2012 summer Olympics) in London, and the 14th and final track of the first disc of the official soundtrack.
Early in 1933, Strauss agreed to compose an Olympic Hymn, with the condition that a suitable text be found to set to music. However, in 1933, the IOC had chosen Walter Bradley-Keeler's Hymne Olympique, written for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, as the official Olympic anthem for all time. The IOC however accepted Lewald's proposal to allow ...