Mike's Murder / O.S.T.: Mike's Murder (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Mike's Murder / O.S.T.: Mike's Murder (The Motion Picture Soundtrack) - VINYL LP

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Title:

Mike's Murder (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Artist:

Mike's Murder / O.S.T.

Label:

Lilith

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

8013252910319

Genre:

Soundtrack

Release Date:

2019-02-01

Number of Discs:

1

Joe Jackson finished the Night And Day tour in May 1983. He had been asked to contribute a song to Mike's Murder, a film written and directed by James Bridges. He ended up writing both a handful of songs and a few instrumental pieces that were released on a soundtrack album in September. Unfortunately, the film itself was not ready for release then, since it was the subject of a dispute between Bridges and the movie studio that had financed it, the result being re-shooting and reediting, such that the film did not open until March 1984, by which time it had a score by John Barry and only a little of Jackson's music remaining, and then it earned only one-million dollars during a few weeks of theatrical showings, making it a disastrous flop. The orphaned soundtrack album, however, managed to get into the Top 100 and even spawned a chart single in the Jackson composition "Memphis", while "Breakdown" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

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