Popular musicians who have written film music

[Dame Starry]

Eric Clapton - for Homeboy: particularly his version of "Dixie" with Nathan East which is sublime.

and also for Rush which, of course has "Tears In Heaven".



"Tears In Heaven", contrary to popular belief, was NOT written for his son, Conor; it was written for the film. I think Clapton was happy for people to believe it was about his son as it was not quite so personal, but enabled him to share his grief with the world.



(The song he actually wrote for Conor is called, "Circus" and can be found on the album 'Pilgrim'.)



YDSL x.

[samkydd]

Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits has written one or two I think. The theme for Local Hero is one that I remember! Also Chris Rea perhaps!

[batman]

name='samkydd']Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits has written one or two I think. The theme for Local Hero is one that I remember! Also Chris Rea perhaps!

Chris Rea wrote the music for Sof Top Hard Shoulder and co wrote the music for The Krays plus a few others.

[dremble wedge]

Neil Young composed the music for Dead Man



David Byrne did likewise for Young Adam, Married to the Mob and True Stories (which he also wrote and directed).

[stevie boy]

name='christoph404']Michel Legrand released scores of Jazz albums in the 50s one of which sold over 8 million copies. After working with Goddard he became a prolific film composer. My favourite is 1968s "The Thomas Crown Affair". Also worth mentioning "Ice Station Zebra" and "The Go Between"......

also the original Brians Song with James Caan, great score

[stevie boy]

name='ChristineCB']Yes, quite a glowing commentary long after the fact. Rushdie's commernts upon first notification were far less ambiguous.

Cat Stevens is a musical genius, not sure about his Muslim alter ego.

[rskershaw]

Pink Floyd - Zabriskie Point



Its final scene, celebrating the destruction of consumerism, has ironically been copied in a recent commercial!

[dogstar]

A word here for musician/actor John Tams who as well as acting in Sharpe co-wrote all the music ( with Dominic Muldowney ) and sang in many of the episodes. He also composed the music for Raggedy Rawney ( Bob Hoskins directorial debut ) in which he also acted and in a double whammy co-wrote the music for Stuart Burge's TV version of The Rainbow and acted in Ken Russell's cinema version.

[duffy moon]

Joe Strummer did some film music for a couple, most remembered for the film Walker.



Dick Nolan of It Bites did the music for the series House.



oh and didn't John Lydon do the music for that film (can't be arsed to google it) he was in in the early 80's?

[bhowells]

Surpised that nobody mentioned, Alan Price's score for "O Lucky Man."



Also the cult folk trio The Roches contributed to the soundtrack of the movie"Crossing Delancey." not actually sure if all their songs on the soundtrack were composed specifially for the movie, I know that one song,"Anti Sex Backlash of the 80's." appeared on one of their albums. The movie also featured their cover of the 50's classic."Come Softly To Me.



Suzzy Roche had a small role in the movie. Suzzy was once linked to Louden Wainwright and they had a child called Lucy who is also a singer.

[MB]

name='ChristineCB']Yes, quite a glowing commentary long after the fact. Rushdie's commernts upon first notification were far less ambiguous.

That's a tricky one - I think you can't stop liking a particular piece of music because you don't agree with someones principles - but I suppose you can agree not to support them financially in any way.



I thought Cat Stevens 1967 was great and a bit of a dish..but his later antics worry me enough to not call myself a fan..



I have been faced squarely with this problem though - during the eighties I was a Smiths fan. Everybody knew it and Morrissey influenced me in a number of ways. But people develop and change and Morrissey's views in certain areas worried me enough to leave off..(like many others)

When he appeared back from the US a few years ago - a lot of old fans had matured, had missed him etc etc..we let him back in and his popularity was more than ever - younger people had picked up on him..packed out venues etc..but he's been up to his old tricks lately and I'm not sure how I feel about supporting him.



Hmm..



Anyway - been listening to Yann Tiersen quite a bit lately who I either love or hate - I'm not sure..



But he wrote the music for Amelie and is hugely popular besides:



YouTube - Yann Tiersen - La boulange



EDIT - Just discovered that he also wrote the music for 'Goodbye Lenin' which is one of my favourite films.

[earlb]

name='Quiller']We should all be shot for not mentioning ROY BUDD! He was a musician before he started films. His music for films is much better than his reputation.

Totally agree. I used to record all his demos and he was a very unassuming man. It's a shame we lost him so early along with Dudley Moore. I always remember Roy in one of his zany moments demonstrating how Russ conway would sound if he had 15 fingers. I still have the tape. R.I.P.

[penfold]

name='dogstar']A word here for musician/actor John Tams who as well as acting in Sharpe co-wrote all the music ( with Dominic Muldowney ) and sang in many of the episodes. He also composed the music for Raggedy Rawney ( Bob Hoskins directorial debut ) in which he also acted and in a double whammy co-wrote the music for Stuart Burge's TV version of The Rainbow and acted in Ken Russell's cinema version.

One of my heroes...I have his work going back to Muckram Wakes....one of the most extraordinary experiences in my life was seeing, at a charity event in the early 90's, a recreation of the '76 Albion Band, playing for excerpts from The Nativity....Brenda Blethyn, Brian Glover, Don Warrington, Dave Hill who organised it for War Child...and of course John singing....I was holding a lit taper in the crowd around Brenda as the Virgin Mary, when John goes into Lay Me Low....and I completely lost it. Cried like a child...

JT did a lot of work in The National, with The Albions and later The Home Service...The Mysteries, and the original productions of Lark Rise To Candleford and still does a fair bit of Radio Theatre music with writer Michael Eaton. Disgustingly talented, and a nice man to boot.

[penfold]

Just had a mild shock, watching the Alec Guinness/ Grace Kelly film The Swan, that one of the two boys running around the Palace playing football was a 13-year-old Van Dyke Parks, record producing genius...

[billy bentley]

The two Ronnies Wood and Lane (while still in The Faces) recorded and released a soundtrack called "Mahoney's Estate" or "Mahoney's Last Stand", but I don't think the film was ever released. The Clash agreed to record the soundtrack for Scorsese's "Gangs Of New York" in the early 80's when it was going to star Robert De Niro. The dfinancing for the film fell through. Also Elton John did the soundtrack for a film called "Friends" I only know this because there seems to have been a copy in every junk/charity/thrift shop I have evr visited !