Forever Friends (Olympic theme song)

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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. [1]

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