LADYHAWKE Film Soundtrack OST LP 1985 ANDREW POWELL Michelle Pfeiffer Broderick

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Cult soundtrack to the film that ended the 1980s fantasy film genre!!

Here I have for sale the original soundtrack to the cult 1985 fantasy film 'Ladyhawke' by Andrew Powell.

Andrew Powell & Philharmonia Orchestra, The* ?– Ladyhawke - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Label: Atlantic ?– 781 248-1
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style: Disco

Vinyl: MINT. Looks very clean on visual inspection. Plays superbly as if new.
Cover and sleeve: EX. Colours remain vibrant and unfaded. Some minor damage to the edges and a few light nicks in the corners. A decent example overall, however.

Track listing:
A1. Main Title     
A2. Phillipe's Escape     
A3. The Search For Phillipe     
A4. Tavern Fight (Phillipe)     
A5. Tavern Fight (Navarre)     
A6. Phillipe Describes Isabeau     
A7. Navarre's Ambush

B1. The Chase, The Fall & The Transformation     
B2. "She Was Sad At First…"     
B3. Navarre Returns To Aquila     
B4. Navarre's And Marquet's Duel     
B5. Marquet's Death     
B6. Bishop's Death     
B7. End Title     

Bass [Bass Guitar] – David Paton
Composed By, Orchestrated By, Conductor – Andrew Powell
Drums, Percussion – Stuart Elliott
Guitar [Guitars] – Ian Bairnson
Keyboards – Andrew Powell, Richard Cottle
Orchestra [Performed By] – Philharmonia Orchestra, The*
Producer, Engineer – Alan Parsons


Review:

In the rush to capitalise on the popularity of the blossoming fantasy genre in the early 1980's, studios had to be somewhat nervous about the offerings they were each about to produce in 1985.

Most of them were complete failures, including Red Sonja and Legend, though Ladyhawke actually managed to become a moderate success at the box office. Director Richard Donner as an established force, the cast was filled with young stars and old favorites, and the story was romantically set in a familiar medieval universe. That plot loosely involves a curse that has caused two lovers (Michelle Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer) to take the shape of animals against their will, one at night and one during the day, so that they can never be together.

Their encounters saving the life (and utilizing the services) of a mousy Matthew Broderick provides the action.

The film has a loyal cult following even several decades later, and the project is a rare example of a circumstance in which it has always been controversial because of its music.

Donner had worked with both John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, though with Williams on tour and taking a break from film scoring and Goldsmith mired in the disaster of Legend for Ridley Scott, Donner came up with the idea of plundering the services of orchestrator Andrew Powell and taking advantage of the pop culture music fad invading fantasy films at the time.

It's hard to figure exactly where the genre switched its allegiance from the robust orchestral fantasy scores of Williams, James Horner, Trevor Jones, and Basil Poledouris to the more contemporary 1980's rock scene. Some point to Toto's strangely effective Dune score in 1984 as the source.

But, in any case, 1985 fantasy films hastened the popular demise of the genre through this "popification." In the last gasps of the Conan franchise, Ennio Morricone would infuse his orchestral score with rock elements, while Goldsmith's score for Legend would be tossed by the studio in favor of a Tangerine Dream replacement. And for Ladyhawke, Donner and the producers reportedly heard music from the Alan Parsons Project while scouting locations in Italy and decided to incorporate it as part of their film as well.

The end result is one of the most widely mocked soundtracks in the history of film, a poppy cop-genre comedy score with token orchestral fantasy elements that was soundly panned even at the time of its release. In retrospect, it's even worse than one remembers it from back then.



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