Mark Ronson Records Song for London Olympics

Music producer Mark Ronson addresses the media during the launch of the Coca-Cola Move to the Beat campaign for the London 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Ian Gavan/Getty images for Coca-Cola

Mark Ronson is collaborating with singer Katy B on the theme song for the London 2012 Olypmic Games. The tune, which will be used in ads for Coca-Cola, as well as various other spots promoting the sporting event.

According to the Associated Press, the music will incorporate samples of athletes from around the world in action. In preparation for the track, Ronson traveled to five nations to record original sound clips for the song, in some cases attaching microphones to the arms and legs of Olympic hopefuls in order to capture the sound of their motions.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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