The Long Good Friday Main Title Theme Music - Full Version (The Stereo Mix)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The Long Good Friday main title theme music has always been a favourite of mine and so I decided to update the full version to glorious STEREO.
To my knowledge, the music has only ever been available as a mono recording (in recent years, there has been a sort of stereo version, but it’s basically the mono track spread across the left and right channels - not what I would call true stereo), so, I thought it was time to mix the track and try and create a proper stereo experience - without straying too far from Francis Monkman’s brilliantly composed original masterpiece.
Starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, The Long Good Friday is a 1980 British gangster film produced by Handmade Films. Bob Hoskins plays Cockney crime boss Harold Shand - a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul. He has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend (Good Friday weekend) the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organisation, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion. As the tagline from the original film poster says… “Who lit the fuse that tore Harold’s world apart?”
Francis Monkman (Ganga Publishing B.V.) provides a great score to the film and there are lots of recognisable faces belonging to actors who went on to make their names in British film and TV in the 80s and 90s.
No copyright infringement intended. This is a tribute remix born out of my love for the film. Copyright belongs to Handmade Films/Francis Monkman/Ganga Publishing B.V.
That end scene with this music is one of my favorite scenes in cinema.
It's really a perfect theme that encapsulates this genre. The electronic start sets it in motion with a driving menace, but when the swinging horns come in, it takes you right to the swagger of hip London of the time.
For those of you older dart fans, you may remember this one as 2 Time World Champion and Legend of Darts , Dennis Preistley s Walk on music which he used for most of his Pro Darts Career .
Yes. It took me ages to find this, but Denis Priestley is who inspired me to come here
Yep.Great film and powerful theme.
Many people may not appreciate the work involved with making mono stems for a stereo mix and having the result sound professional, I definitely do!
But getting the backing strings and synth fully mixed on the sound stage would’ve elevated this for me.
Bob Hoskins' expression changing as realisation dawns on him .... then the fantastic late 70s Synths kick in, then the sleazy horn section, and that electronic Dr Who bassline.
It couldn't be a more perfect snapshot of that era. The end of the beige suit 70s and the start of the pinstripe suit 80s London. If ever a film deserved a sequel it was this.
A missed opportunity to make a "Godfather 2" type film. A young Harry Shand on his way up, cut into a modern Docklands story.
Always my Good Friday ritual to watch this movie
Oh yeah! This was a movie i saw in my teens. what a brilliant mix! Love it man. Thank you
Great film ❤
Masterpiece😅
I’ve seen this film over the intervening 40+ years
It’s the best gangster film ever made both here or across the pond
The last few minutes of the film with Bob in the back seat of the car and Pierce pointing a gun at Bob
No words -but Bob was just the best with his facial expressions /lack of them
Francis Monkman - he died earlier this year🙏🙏🙏🫤🫤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
saw the flick as a kid. Great theme. British series/movies in the late 70/early 80 -> 100% well done
I think the stereo challenge for Silva Screen when they remastered the OST in 2016 was that Francis Monkman recorded the score in mono. as the film soundtrack was mono and the market for soundtracks was still nascent in 1981. So when Arrow did the 2K and 4K remasters of the movie , they also had to be 'creative' with the Dolby Atmos track. It's a shame as Francis Monkman's stereo productions were always lavish - the most well known of this era being 1982's "Achievement of Man" used for the BBC TV Series "Johnny Ball's Think Again".. One suggests he would have been equally careful with a true stereo master had it been needed at the time .
Used the original for my ring walks when i used to Box. Love this version too.
Wicked choice of ring walk music...
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Absolutely brilliant, this movie is amazing and reminds me of getting to spend many hours with Bob. He loved making this film and never realised the end sequence would be so influential
Hi great track thank you for the remix my favourite film and soundtrack 😀
No doubt about it this time, another winner!
Superb - possibly the best (of many) remixes I've heard of this... 👍
a remarkable and unforgettable soundtrack,
with a somewhat forgotten film
What you going on about ! the film is a classic,one of the best British gangster film around
lovely bit of business
Love it!
WOW! Can I say that again. F*cking WOW!
Superb.
Absolutely brilliant. I have subscribed.
Nailed it Vincey!
TUNE!
Francis Monkman died last week...
Wow
Would you be able to do the Who dares Wins theme please?
Good one. I’ll add it to the list 😊
This would hold its own in a rave to this day im sure. Just a bit faster tempo maybe. Decades ahead of its time really
Play at 1.25x speed.
sounds like Stars on 45