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60 unforgettable hits from the decade that brought us Top Gun and The Breakfast Club. Spectrum Music, Universal, Sony Music Entertainment! There was no greater era for movie soundtracks than the 80s! Featuring some of the most iconic and memorable soundtrack moments from artists and movies such as Kenny Loggins with the title track to Footloose, Survivor with ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ from Rocky III, Huey Lewis & The News with ‘The Power Of Love’ in Back To The Future, Simple Minds’ ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ from the Breakfast Club and Gladys Knight’s classic Bond theme from Licence To Kill plus many more. This epic 3CD product will have you reminiscing on those beloved 80s film classics and their amazing music.

“I didn’t want to give them some generic dance sh*t”: Mark Ronson on producing for Barbie. “You have to turn off all the things you know about making pop and rock and soul music” Mark Ronson has reflected on the process of curating the soundtrack for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and the importance of “serving the picture”. The new film, which sees Margot Robbie star as a Stereotypical Barbie who finds herself becoming more human-like in a strange turn of events, landed last Friday (21 July) accompanied by the Mark Ronson-produced soundtrack.

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is the soundtrack album for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, released on February 17, 2004. The film's lead actress, Lindsay Lohan, recorded four songs written for the film, including "Drama Queen (That Girl)", that was released as a promo single in January of that year. The album sold over 660,000 copies, according to Soundscan.

Graham Dee was one of those who helped make the sixties great. He was there as writer, producer and session guitarist. He had played in the final line-up of The Moments with Steve Marriott and then continued with a Marriott connection by playing rhythm guitar on the East End Fab Four's debut single What'Cha Gonna Do About It. He joined bands such as Them, The Walker Brothers, The Gass, He even filled in the the "absent" Syd Barrett on some Pink Floyd shows. However, he was primarily a writer and producer. He teamed up with Brian Potter who had co-written What'Cha Gonna Do About It with Ian Samwell. They became the staff songwriters at Polydor Records. Some of the duo's work will already be familiar to fans of The Fleurs de Lys as they wrote tracks such as Daughter of the Sun which was sung by Sharon Tandy backed by The Fleurs de Lys. They also wrote a number of other tracks specifically for Sharon Tandy. Graham Dee has an extensive archive and this is CD is the first of three planned collections.

50 Minute Technicolor Dream is a compilation of mostly previously unreleased recordings by Tomorrow. Tracks 1-2 are unused demos for the film Blowup. Tracks 7-8 are from BBC Radio 1: "Top Gear" (the first "Peel Session", recorded September 21, 1967), recorded at Maida Vale Studios. Tracks 9-16 are live at "Christmas On Earth Continued" Friday, December 22, 1967, recorded at Kensington Olympia Grand & National Halls.

Barbie The Album officially arrived on Friday (July 21), with a star studded tracklist featuring songs by Nicki Minaj with Ice Spice, Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish and more. But following the film’s theatrical release, also on Friday, the expanded version of the album titled Barbie The Album (Best Weekend Ever Edition) now features two additional tracks.

At some point in the early 21st century, Radiohead became something more than a band: they became a touchstone for everything that is fearless and adventurous in rock, inheriting the throne from David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and the Talking Heads. The latter group gave the band its name – it's an album track on 1986's True Stories – but Radiohead never sounded much like the Heads, nor did they take much from Bowie, apart from their willingness to experiment.