1996 Olympics Music Connections and The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues E141
About this episode
The episode explores the cultural impact of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and features insights from guest Jimmy about his experiences related to the event.
Thirty years later, we can still hear it: the roar of Atlanta’s 1996 Summer Olympics, the crowd noise bouncing off concrete, and the way the city felt like the center of the world. We kick things off with the fun parts people love to remember, from landing tickets the old-school way to watching basketball in the Georgia Dome and soaking up the larger-than-life spectacle of the Centennial Olympic Games. Then we go behind the curtain. Jimmy shares what it was like working on Olympic-related au...
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