![]() ‘Birdy’ is not a very well known film, but I think it is very strong and has some great performances from Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage, who’s obviously very well known now but wasn’t then. Both he and Scorsese, who I worked with on ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’, are musical directors who really care and feel the music they work with. When I had an invitation from Alan Parker to work on ‘Birdy’ that was very exciting for me. Ever since, I’ve always wanted to work more in film, not so much at the acting end of it, but more in the creating side. “I’ve always loved film music and at age seventeen I had the choice to go to the London School of Film Technique or following a career as a musician, and it was quite a difficult decision for me. ![]() Birdy is the soundtrack to the Alan Parker movie of the same name – the tale of a Vietnam vet who harbours Icarus-like ambitions to fly – it finds Peter flexing his creative muscles free of any commercial pressures. Lanois went on to co-produce the So and US albums with Peter. Recorded between October and December 1984 and originally released in 1985, Birdy marks the first occasion that Peter worked with French-Canadian producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Lanois who was fresh from working on The Unforgettable Fire with U2.
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