When Albert Hammond and John Bettis were tasked with writing a song for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, they wrote one that ended up its theme song. “I got a phone call from NBC: ‘Can you write a song for the Olympics in Seoul, Korea representing the US?’” remembered Hammond of how the […]
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