Ennio Morricone: Last News

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have revealed that they once dissected Kraftwerk‘s 1981 album ‘Computer World’ in front of the band.The duo, who recently formed side project The Smile with Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, admitted they were big fans of the electro pioneers on Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes’ comedy podcast SmartLess.The pair admitted studying the album in detail and once sitting Kraftwerk down during a Radiohead tour in South America and dissecting the record over dinner.“We literally study ‘Computer World’ in terms of playing it to each other and discussing what is going on and why, it’s so good,” Greenwood said of the record.“We can pretty much list what every instrument was and how they did it [on that record],” said Yorke before he added: “They came on tour with us once to South America and we had a very long prolonged dinner with them where we basically dissected the whole record and asked which instrument and what was used on every single piece of that [record]. It was the ultimate geek out.”During the podcast, Yorke also discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Ennio Morricone influenced Radiohead’s landmark album ‘OK Computer’.“The Shining was a really massive one [influence],” Yorke said.

Sea Girls have returned with their new single ‘Lonely’ and announced details of their biggest UK tour to date.The band’s new album ‘Homesick’ is set for release on March 25 via Polydor, following their 2020 debut album ‘Open Your Head’. New track ‘Lonely’ follows recent singles ‘Sick’, ‘Sleeping With You’, ‘Hometown’ and ‘Again Again’.Discussing the new song, frontman Henry Camamile said: “It was written the day Ennio Morricone died, so was initially in honour of him, a nod to the good, the bad and the ugly – hence the whistle and the line ‘OK Corral’.“It’s about the best friend I probably should have gone out with, but never did.

Todd McCarthy When the late, great writer-director Samuel Fuller finished shooting what turned out to be his final Hollywood studio film, in 1981, his producer Jon Davison asked who he had in mind to compose the score. After a reflective pull on his cigar, Fuller barked, “Let’s get Morricone.”And so it was that one of the greatest film music composers of all time made one of his early jaunts to Hollywood to record a haunting soundtrack that, for more than 20 years, was not available on vinyl or anywhere else.

We’ve lost one of the greats. Academy Award winning composer Ennio Morricone has passed away at the age of 91. As we spend a lot of this week here at Hollywood News sharing interviews with composers, each and every single one of them owe a debt to Morricone. When it came to cinematic music, few did it better, and arguably none were more influential. Even beyond finally winning an Oscar a few years back, Morricone had made his mark on a whole genre, as the sound of spaghetti westerns is essentially his and his alone. To say that he will be missed is a massive understatement.

Hans Zimmer has paid tribute to fellow composer Ennio Morricone, whose death at the age of 91 was announced earlier today (July 6).Morricone, who scored over 500 films, most famously Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns including The Good The Bad And The Ugly, died last week following complications from a fall.Writing on Twitter, Inception, Gladiator and The Lion King composer Zimmer paid homage to Morricone and posted a picture of the two of them together.Ennio.The first note I ever heard of his grabbed hold of me and wouldn’t let me go. I never decided to become a film composer.

Jon Burlingame Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at the age of 91, wrote more than 400 original film scores, many of which have entered the classic movie-music pantheon. While trying to narrow them down to the 10 best is an impossible task, here, in chronological order, are an essential 10: This was the most popular of the maestro’s Western scores, for the last of Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and The Mission (1986) are among the best-known and most accomplished ever written. In 2016 he won the Oscar for best original score for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.But Morricone always kept his distance from Hollywood and made a point of remaining in his native Italy, even politely refusing to learn English.

Hans Zimmer has paid tribute to his fellow movie score composer Ennio Morricone, who has died at the age of 91.Morricone, who penned the scores to more than 500 films, including many of Sergio Leone‘s seminal spaghetti westerns like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, passed away during the early hours of the morning on Monday (July 6, 2020) after being hospitalized with a fractured femur last week, his lawyer Giorgio Assumma confirmed in a statement to The Guardian.Assumma said his client, “died at dawn on 6 July in Rome with the comfort of faith.

Ennio Morricone has died.The Italian maestro was 91 years old and leaves behind a movie legacy for the ages.To celebrate his phenomenal career, we take a look at some of his most memorable film scores that made him the go-to composer for westerns and more if you’re looking for movie night inspiration.Is there any sound more synonymous with westerns than the opening whistling from The Good The Bad And The Ugly? The iconic sound was to echo the coyote calls and give the film-goers a sense of foreboding.To go with the new kind of film with the anti-hero vibe, Ennio created a soundtrack that focused on male chanting, Spanish guitars, whistling and bells.

Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone has died at the age of 91. The renowned Italian musician, one of the most prolific composers in film history, passed away early Monday in a Rome clinic.

Tributes have been paid to Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’s main theme, following his death aged 91.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Morricone died in Rome following complications from a fall last week in which he broke his femur.The Oscar winner, who took home the Academy Award in 2016 for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 film The Hateful Eight, had scored over 400 films over his career.When accepting his Oscar, Morricone told the audience: ‘There is no great music without a great film that inspires it.’The composer was also was nominated for Oscars for his original scores for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Roland Joffe’s The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), Barry Levinson’s Bugsy (1991) and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Malena (2000) and earned an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007.He first rose to

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly along with a huge number of other Westerns.

Legendary film composer Ennio Morricone has died at the age of 91.