It MAY have been the longest opening sequence in cinematic history. A fly buzzed. A windmill creaked. Rusty water dripped from a tank. A few rough characters squinted into the sun. This was Sergio ...

Sergio Leone’s epic 1968 western Once upon a Time in the West is a film with several memorable main character introductions. Whether it’s our first glimpse of Charles Bronson’s mysterious ‘Man with ...

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The maestro was a man of routine. Besides not talking much about his work, which consisted of some of the most memorable film scores in movie history, he was a quiet man of prayer. Every morning at ...

When composer Ennio Morricone, well into his 80s, lets loose on the “coyote howl” theme he wrote for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and sings the howling part — in a fully committed a capella attack ...

“At first, I thought making music for the cinema was humiliating,” the late film composer Ennio Morricone once said. “By writing, I got my revenge.” That comeuppance came in the form of an Oscar for ...

Tributes have been pouring in following the death of a hugely popular maverick who influenced generations of Merseyside music fans. Geoff Davies, who co-launched Liverpool's legendary record shop ...

Praised by critics as the inventor of contemporary Italian television, he also used his position to take on the Sicilian Mafia, which tried to kill him. By Gaia Pianigiani ROME — Maurizio Costanzo, ...

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Bell worked on more than 30 gold records from 1968-78 as Philadelphia became as much a center of soul music as Detroit and Motown Records were in the 1960s. Thom Bell at the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame ...

Cathal Coughlan, who has died at the age of 61 following a long illness, was among the foremost singers and songwriters of his generation, his formidable body of work stretching over more than 40 ...

Often cited as a key creator of the Spaghetti Western soundscape, Ennio Morricone is doubtlessly one of the most prolific and versatile composers in the history of cinema. With nearly 400 screen ...