Academy award-winning music producer Giorgio Moroder is credited with the world-famous 1984 Los Angeles Olympics theme song "Reach Out", the 1988 Seoul Olympics' theme song "Hand in Hand", and "Un'estate Italiana" for the 1990 Football World Cup.

Moroder came to know Kong Xiangdong twelve years ago. Today the two are great friends. Over a decade they collaborated again and again, composing and adapting tunes from several genres. In 1993 Moroder penned the song "Good Luck Beijing" cheering Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games. This time he and his long-time friend Kong worked together in competition to write the 2008 Beijing Olympics theme song.

Giorgio Moroder joined Kong on the recording right after arriving in Beijing last Sunday. Moroder's presence at the recording studio left one of the performers, Sun Yue, feeling both honored and a little nervous.

After finishing Sun Yue's session, Kong and Moroder headed straight to another studio. They gave instructions to fourteen finalists from the 2007 College Student Music Festival Singing Competition. The finalists were to join the chorus for "Forever Friends".

As Moroder said, he's fond of Chinese folk music very much, and the leading motif of "Forever Friends" is inspired by a folk music piece. He also reveals he plans to invite two Chinese singers and two foreign artists to perform the number together, once it's chosen as the theme song of the 2008 Olympics.