Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Killing Bono: Original Soundtrack Album




"Killing Bono"s original soundtrack album will be released on March 28th ,Sony Music has announced.



"Much more than your average movie soundtrack, the Killing Bono OST features eight unique new arrangements written by Grammy-nominated song writer Joe Echo, which have been performed and recorded by Ben Barnes and Robert Sheehan, the actors who portray Neil and Ivan McCormick in the film.
The album also includes an exclusive and previously unreleased track entitled Street Mission, written by U2’s first incarnation, The Hype, and performed on the Killing Bono OST by Martin McCann (who plays Bono) and the band portraying The Hype in the film. Killing Bono documents the rise of U2 from their first concert as The Hype to the peak of their fame as the biggest band in the world, and Street Mission is followed on the soundtrack by U2 classic I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, from 1987’s landmark album The Joshua Tree, the release of which drives the climax of the film.



Other tracks include the original 1987 recording of Stop The World by Shook Up! (Neil and Ivan’s band portrayed in Killing Bono), former Live lead singer Ed Kowalczyk’s The Great Beyond, taken from his debut solo album, and music from the film’s score, by Academy Award winning British composer Stephen Warbeck. Two songs, Some Kind Of Loving and Sleepwalking, feature original Shook Up! lyrics, with musical re-workings by Joe Echo.
Joe Echo is an acclaimed up-and-coming Irish singer/songwriter, whose collaboration with Madonna on the track Celebration earned him a Grammy nomination in 2010. His song On All My Sundays features on Paul Oakenfold’s #1 Dance album Perfecto Vegas, and he has recently worked with Blur and The Verve. He will release his debut solo album later in 2011.
To coincide with the theatrical release of Killing Bono and the CD & Digital Download release of the soundtrack album, a re-issued version of Neil McCormick's memoir I was Bono’s Doppelganger will be released on Thursday March 31st, featuring brand new cover artwork and additional material; the book will be repackaged as Killing Bono.
Directed by BAFTA winner Nick Hamm, Killing Bono is based on journalist Neil McCormick’s best-selling coming of age novel I was Bono's Doppelganger, with a screenplay by BAFTA winning writers Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, with Simon Maxwell. Its young cast boasts some of the UK's most promising acting talent, including Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia) as Neil McCormick, Robert Sheehan (Misfits) as Ivan McCormick, and Martin McCann (Clash of the Titans, The Pacific) as Bono. Killing Bono is also the legendary Pete Postlethwaite's last ever screen appearance. Ian Flooks, one of films producers, was U2's agent from 1980 till 1997.





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www.killingbono.co.uk



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