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August 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Bill Conti Scores The Great American Novel

People talk about The Great American Novel like it’s a thing. It is a thing – but it’s not a book, and it’s never going to be. Bruce Springsteen probably thinks he’s written The Great American Novel. But he just dragged John Steinbeck down into rock’n’roll. There are many photographers that have taken The Great […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bill Conti, Books, Breaking Bad, Bruce Springsteen, Films, ill Conti Scores The Great American Novel, John Steinbeck, Music, Novel, Poem, Poem: Bill Conti Scores The Great American Novel, Rocky, The Great American Novel, The Sopranos, TV ·

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September 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 628

Bill Conti, Gonna Fly Now [Single] (1977) I have the soundtrack albums for Rocky (the first film) and also for Rocky III (maybe one day I’ll collect the rest). I love the Rocky franchise and have watched some of the films a bunch of times, and all of them at least once. And so my […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1977, A-side, B-side, Bill Conti, EP, Gonna Fly Now, LP, Movie, Record, Reflections, Rocky, Score, Single, The Vinyl Countdown # 628, Theme, Vinyl ·

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January 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1433

Bill Conti & V/A, Rocky III [OST] (1982) Before I could find the original Rocky soundtrack I had this. Worthy, obviously, for Eye Of The Tiger but the version of the Gonna Fly Now – the Rocky theme – was a letdown. So if anything this record kept me searching for the original soundtrack – […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Bill Conti, Eye Of The Tiger, Frank Stallone, Gonna Fly Now, Pushin', Rocky, Rocky III, Sly, Survivor ·

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August 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1879

Bill Conti, Rocky (1976) At some point – a few years back – I started to think of Gonna Fly Now as one of the greatest pieces of music ever. The irony that I might have been attempting was so deep that I couldn’t work out my true feelings about this piece of music. All […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Bill Conti, Eye Of The Tiger, Gonna Fly Now, Philadelphia Morning, Rocky, Rocky III, Vinyl ·

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