Legend (Tangerine Dream soundtrack)

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Legend (Tangerine Dream soundtrack)

Legend is a soundtrack album released in 1986 by the German band Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
for the North American theatrical version of the film Legend
Legend (film)

Legend is a 1985 in film fantasy film released by 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures , directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, Alice Playten, David Bennent and Billy Barty....
, issued a year earlier in Europe. The film was written by William Hjortsberg, produced by Arnon Milchan

Arnon Milchan

'Arnon Milchan' is a film producer and businessman. Milchan produced many successful films such as The War of the Roses, Pretty Woman, The Devil's Advocate and L.A....
, directed by Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
and released domestically by Universal Studios

Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
.

r a disappointing test screening with Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
's original orchestral score, Scott decided to make changes and improve the film.

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Legend is a soundtrack album released in 1986 by the German band Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Arnon Milchan

'Arnon Milchan' is a film producer and businessman. Milchan produced many successful films such as The War of the Roses, Pretty Woman, The Devil's Advocate and L.A....
, directed by Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

Universal Studios

Background

After a disappointing test screening with Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith

Sidney Sheinberg

Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg is an American entertainment executive. He is married to actress Lorraine Gary.Currently, he runs the Bubble Factory Studios, an independent production company of film projects....
, president of MCA

Music Corporation of America

MCA, Inc. was an United States corporation in the music and television businesses. MCA published music, booked acts, ran a record company, and distributed television productions and home videos....
(the parent company of Universal at the time) felt that the Goldsmith score would not appeal to the youth and pressed Scott for a new score. Tangerine Dream was contracted to complete a new, more contemporary score—a job they completed in three weeks. Until 2002, only European audiences could see Legend with Goldsmith's score.

Tangerine Dream score

"Loved By The Sun" is a vocal version of "Unicorn Theme" with vocals written and sung by Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson, born John Roy Anderson on 25 October 1944, is an England musician, best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock musical band Yes ....
of Yes

Yes (band)

Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
. The vocals were added after Tangerine Dream had composed the instrumental music. It was originally recorded with vocals by Susanne Pawlitzki based on William Blake

William Blake

William Blake was an English people English poetry, Painting, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both poetry and the visual arts of the Romanticism....
's poem, "The Angel", but was rejected in favor of the Jon Anderson version. "Unicorn Theme" has been played live at several concerts in various versions. "Is Your Love Strong Enough?", played over the end credits, has vocals written and sung by Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style. Ferry came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three albums and ten single s entering the Top 40 charts in the United Ki...
with guitar by David Gilmour

David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour Order of the British Empire , is an England musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the main songwriters in the band Pink Floyd....
and bass by Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt is a well-known session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. He is the son of actor Mike Pratt . In Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, in 1996, Pratt married Gala Wright, the daughter of late Pink Floyd keyboardist, Richard Wright ....
, and is a former out-take of the recording sessions for Avalon

Avalon (album)

Avalon, released in 1982, was Roxy Music's eighth studio album. Recorded in 1981-82 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, it is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of the band's later work....
, the eighth and last Roxy Music

Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
album. All of the other tracks are Tangerine Dream instrumentals. "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" was also released as a 12" single, and included an extended version of the same song and an instrumental, both not available on the "Legend" album.

DVD isolated score

Legend: Ultimate Edition was released on DVD in May 2002. One of the DVD options is to play the U.S. version with an isolated Tangerine Dream score (no dialog or sound effects). There is no music other than what had already been released on LP and CD, thus the DVD plays with long silences in between the music.

Track listing

A listing of the tracks on the current Varese Sarabande CD of the album originally issued by MCA Records:

"Is Your Love Strong Enough?" (Bryan Ferry) – 5.08
"Opening" – 2.55
"Cottage" – 3.23
"Unicorn Theme" – 3.27
"Goblins" – 3.03
"Fairies" – 2.57
"Loved By The Sun" (Jon Anderson with Tangerine Dream) – 5.57
"Blue Room" – 3.24
"The Dance" – 2.23
"Darkness" – 3.05
"The Kitchen/Unicorn Theme Reprise" – 4.49

Personnel

Edgar Froese
Edgar Froese

Edgar Wilmar Froese is a Germany artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for co-founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W....
Christopher Franke
Christopher Franke

Christopher Franke is a musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards andsynthesizer as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins....
Johannes Schmoelling
Johannes Schmoelling

Johannes Schmoelling Johannes was a member of the prolific electronic music group Tangerine Dream from 1980 to 1986. A classically trained musician he began playing piano at the age of eight....

Legend (Tangerine Dream soundtrack)

Background

Tangerine Dream score

DVD isolated score

Track listing

Personnel

See also