The Princess Bride is a 1987 soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

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 by Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...

 for the film The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride (film)

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American film based on the 1973 novel of the same name by William Goldman, combining comedy, adventure, romance, and fantasy. The film was directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by Goldman...

, directed by Rob Reiner

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. Released by Warner Bros. Records

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 in the United States

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 and Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records

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 internationally, the album contains the song "Storybook Love", performed by Willy DeVille

Willy DeVille

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 and co-written with Mark Knopfler. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song

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 at the 60th Academy Awards

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.

In his audio commentary of the film on the Special Edition DVD, director Rob Reiner said that only Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits

Dire Straits

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 could create a soundtrack to capture the film's quirky yet romantic nature. Reiner was an admirer of Knopfler's work but did not know him before working on the film. He sent the script to him hoping he would agree to score the film. Knopfler agreed on one condition: that somewhere in the film Reiner would include the baseball cap (modified to say USS Ooral Sea) he wore as Marty DiBergi in This is Spinal Tap

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. Reiner was unable to produce the original cap, but did include a similar cap in the grandson's room. Later Knopfler said he was joking.

Track listing

1. "Once upon a Time...Storybook Love" (4:00)
2. "I Will Never Love Again" (3:04)
3. "Florin Dance" (1:32)
4. "Morning Ride" (1:36)
5. "The Friends' Song" (3:02)
6. "The Cliffs of Insanity" (3:18)
7. "The Swordfight" (2:43)
8. "Guide My Sword" (5:11)
9. "The Fire Swamp and the Rodents of Unusual Size" (4:47)
10. "Revenge" (3:51)
11. "A Happy Ending" (1:52)
12. "Storybook Love" (4:24) by Mark Knopfler and Willy DeVille

All songs composed by Mark Knopfler, except where noted.

Credits

Music

• Mark Knopfler
  Mark Knopfler
  Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
  
   – guitar, composer, arranger, producer
• Willy DeVille
  Willy DeVille
  Willy DeVille was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five year career, first with his band Mink DeVille and later on his own, Deville created original songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. He worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary...
  
  – vocals
• Guy Fletcher – producer

Production

• Marc DeSisto – engineer
• Steve Jackson – engineer, mixing
• Bill Schnee – mixing
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• Deborah Feingold – photography