SOUNDTRACK STREET DATE HAS BEEN MOVED UP TO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th
SOUNDTRACK WILL BE AVAILABLE IN RETAIL STORES FOR THE WEEKEND
Interscope Records To Release ACROSS THE UNIVERSE Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack Featuring Songs Like "I Am The Walrus," "Come Together," and
"All You Need is Love" Performed by Bono, Joe Cocker, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim
Sturgess, Dana Fuchs and Others
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Visionary writer-director Julie
Taymor (Frida, Titus, Broadway's The Lion King) and co-writers Dick Clement
and Ian LaFrenais (The Commitments) bring the 1960s to life with Across the
Universe. Interscope Records will release the Across The Universe-Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack September 14th.
Featured on the soundtrack are 16 songs, including Joe Cocker singing
"Come Together," Evan Rachel Wood singing "Blackbird," and Bono performing
"I Am the Walrus" and the end title track "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
Also featured on the album are cast performances of "All My Loving," "I
Want To Hold Your Hand," "It Won't Be Long," "I've Just Seen A Face," "Let
It Be," "Something," "Oh Darling," "Across the Universe," "Helter Skelter,"
"Strawberry Fields," "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," and "Hey Jude."
"The entire concept of this musical," Taymor describes, "is that the
lyrics will tell the story. They are the libretto, they are the arias, they
are the emotion of the characters."
To give the music authenticity, the team recorded many of the songs
using period appropriate equipment, such as analog tape and vintage
microphones. Gohl recalls, "We were all on the same page in taking this
approach and in our desire to avoid the digital pitfalls."
"With this material, everybody knows it so well," Goldenthal explains.
"So the challenge was try to find an honest way -- staying within oneself
-- of getting to the core of these songs and try to find other ways to
support the beautiful words and music."
Revolution Studios presents a Matthew Gross/Team Todd production, a
film by Julie Taymor, Across the Universe will be in select theaters on
September 14, 2007. The Across The Universe - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack will be released by Interscope Records on September 14, 2007.
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