Bill Conti

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William E. "Bill" Conti (born April 13, 1942 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American film composer . His most famous composition is the title theme of the Rocky film series.

biography

The Italian-American Bill Conti was born to Lucetta and William Conti. His musical career began at the age of 15 as a conductor in a local orchestra. In the 1960s he first worked as a film music composer in Italy for films such as A Candidate For A Killing . With the fantastic jazzy soundtrack to the Italo-Movie Juliette de Sade (Mademoiselle De Sade) from 1968, he joins the honorable league of the 60s / 70s Italo jazz and film composers such as Piero Umiliani ( Lady Magnolia , Today's Sound ) , Alberto Baldan Bembo ( The Smart Set ), or Piero Piccioni ( Camille 2000, the music for a modern literary film adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel), which later became known to a wide audience thanks to the iconic Easy Tempo sampler. Several TV and cinema productions followed, until he finally composed the soundtrack for the United Artists production Rocky with Sylvester Stallone in 1976 , a film that became a huge success. In 1981 he composed the soundtrack for the twelfth James Bond adventure In A Deadly Mission , because regular composer John Barry had canceled his collaboration. He also achieved great commercial success with the title song For Your Eyes Only , sung by Sheena Easton . Other well-known works by Conti are the music for the Karate Kid series and for the film The Stuff the Heroes are made of . He also composed the score for the first two seasons of Torches in the Storm , as well as for the prison and friendship drama Blood in, Blood out - Conspiracy for life and death in 1993. Conti is still a busy film composer today, most recently he was for the The graduation film of the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa , for which he did not write a new note. In fact, it's just the old pieces that were just used for the most recent Rocky movie.

Bill Conti's music

Bill Conti is a versatile film composer who mixes traditional orchestral compositions with modern influences, but also wrote jazz compositions such as the soundtrack to Juliette de Sade . He wrote a soundtrack for the James Bond film In A Deadly Mission with numerous pop elements. In the 1980s he composed music for many popular television series, including The Denver Clan , The Colbys , Falcon Crest , Torches in the Storm and Cagney and Lacey .

Awards

Bill Conti was nominated for a Grammy , a Golden Globe and an Oscar for his original score for the film Rocky . For his work as musical director at various Oscar awards, he has been nominated for an Emmy ten times , and has won this award three times so far. Bill Conti has also been honored with a star on the Walk of Fame .

further nominations:

  • Academy Awards 1977: Best Original Song (Rocky)
  • Academy Awards 1982: Best Original Song (For Your Eyes Only)

Filmography (selection)

Additional information

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Conti on radaris.com (English), accessed November 29, 2011
Music from the James Bond film series
Film composers

Monty Norman ( 1962 ) • John Barry (1963–1971; 1974 ; 1979 ; 1983–1987) • George Martin ( 1973 ) • Marvin Hamlisch ( 1977 ) • Bill Conti ( 1981 ) • Michael Kamen ( 1989 ) • Éric Serra ( 1995 ) • David Arnold (1997–2008) • Thomas Newman ( 2012 ; 2015 ) • Hans Zimmer ( 2020 )

Theme music

John Barry Orchestra - The James Bond Theme • Matt Monro - From Russia with Love • Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger • Tom Jones - Thunderball • Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice • John Barry Orchestra - On Her Majesty's Secret Service • Louis Armstrong - We Have All the Time in the World • Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever • Paul McCartney & Wings - Live and Let Die • Lulu - The Man with the Golden Gun • Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better • Shirley Bassey - Moonraker • Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only • Rita Coolidge - All Time High • Duran Duran - A View to a Kill • a-ha - The Living Daylights • Gladys Knight - License to Kill • Tina Turner - GoldenEye • Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies • Garbage - The World Is Not Enough • Madonna - Die Another Day • Chris Cornell - You Know My Name • Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way to Die • Adele - Skyfall • Sam Smith - Writing's on the Wall • Billie Eilish - No Time to Die

personal data
SURNAME Conti, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conti, William E. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island , USA