Bill Conti

Bill Conti on James Bond and Thomas Crown

A man walks into a major New York City museum and walks out with a Monet as casually as if he were leaving an ice cream parlor with a cone topped with two scoops of double-fudge chocolate. Of course, the trick is that one doesn’t just take a painting like that off the wall and…

In 1976 Bill Conti earned himself a place in film music history with his celebrated score for ROCKY. Inasmuch as that score launched him to the forefront of film composers’, it also had the effect of labelling him as a pop musician in the eyes of many critics. “Everything in Hollywood is based on a…

Bill Conti

I interviewed Bill Conti in 2008 primarily about his science fiction scores for the album notes I wrote for La-La Land’s soundtrack to MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. But we also discussed a number of other milestones in his film musical career, with much of the Q&A appearing in my Soundtrax column for May 8, 2008….