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Article: Slatkin Knows The Score
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 11, 1994
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Leonard Slatkin on movie soundtracks:
"In the early `70s, when `The Exorcist' came out ... Warner
Brothers realized the film was a hit. They flew me over to London
and had me re-record all the music so that Warner Brothers Records
could put out an album... .
"But there was a big fight between {director William} Friedkin
and {writer William Peter} Blatty over whose name was going to be
bigger, or where it was going to go on the album. Or something. The
album didn't show up until nine months after the film was out, so it
made absolutely no impact at all.
"In that film, everybody remembers `Tubular Bells,' by Mike
Oldfield, of course. But nobody remembers that there was also music
by ...