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Phoenix’s Initial Olympics Plan Was Thwarted By Bees: 'These are the things you don’t know about Paris'

A hive snafu led to the band’s Closing Ceremony set. “The only thing they told us was, ‘The athletes are going to be wild and possibly drunk.”

This year’s Olympics Closing Ceremony was disguised as an indie-rock concert to soothe the millennial soul, with local heroes Phoenix delighting the Stade de France with a nearly 20-minute set of hits. Joining the band at their invitation was a slate of acts including electropop visionaries Air and Kavinsky as well as American rocker Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. The band was initiallygoing to perform during the Opening Ceremony, but a buzzing issue involving some insects at the world’s most famous art museum grounded the idea, allowing them the opportunity to have a more defining presence on the final night.

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