Soundtrack to the 1996 film “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” by director Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. There were two separate releases: Volume 1, which contains popular music from the film and Volume II, containing the score to the film composed by Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries. Gavin Friday contributes the song Angel to Volume I.
The version of Angel on this soundtrack is different from the mix used on Gavin Friday’s album Shag Tobacco.
The soundtrack reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and went triple-platinum in the U.S. It was especially successful in Australia, where it was the 2nd highest selling album in 1997, going five times platinum. The 10th Anniversary re-release in 2007 contained bonus tracks.
DVD Times reviews the new ‘Music’ edition of the Romeo + Juliet DVD. Reviewer Eamonn McCusker writes:
‘And it is that score that one remembers most, in particular how well it fits the film and how, were it not for Gavin Friday, The Butthole Surfers and composers Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries, one wouldn’t be at all impressed by MTV-meets-Shakespeare logic of its making.’
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A new DVD re-release of Baz Luhrman’s film Romeo + Juliet – dubbed the “Music Edition” – highlights the music of the film.
The Romeo + Juliet soundtrack including Gavin Friday’s Angel as well as songs by Radiohead, Garbage, Des’Ree and Stina Nordenstam was a huge hit in the 90′s, selling 8 million copies.
Luhrman talks to TheStar.com about the new release.
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