Die Hard (1988)
It’s Christmas Eve and police detective Bruce Willis, has Alan Rickman to deal with.
Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, Score Co-Producer
Winner: BMI Film Music Award 1989
Film, Twentieth Century Fox
“I told McTiernan that if he was going to use Beethoven, he also had to license ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ which was the other theme from A Clockwork Orange… I had great fun winding ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ around Beethoven. Sometimes my sense of humor, my sense of the absurd comes out.
In your work, you should be like a child playing with trains. I do take my business seriously, but this is a business of entertaining. You’d be mad to take it too seriously. When I get up in front of the orchestra, I try to have fun.” - Michael (Die Hard DVD Commentary)
Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by
Michael Kamen
Produced by
Michael Kamen and Stephen McLaughlin
Performed by
The Los Angeles Motion Picture All Stars Orchestra
Additional Orchestrations by
Philip Giffin, Chris Boardman, Bruce Babcock and Fiachra Trench
Recorded by
Stephen McLaughlin
Mixed by
Armin Steiner
Supervising Music Editor
Christopher Brooks
Scoring Engineers
Walt Borchers, Terry Brown & Chuck Garsha
Recorded and Mixed at
Twentieth Century Fox Scoring Stage and
Studio Ultimo, Los Angeles, June 1988
Audio Clips
CUE LIST
1M1 - Main Title
1M1 Alt - Main Title (Alternate)
1M4 - Winter Wonderland (Source)
2M2 - Holly
2M4 - Terrorists
3M2 - Lines Are Cut
3M2A - Bare Foot Loose
4M0 - Takagi Dies
4M0 Alt - Takagi Dies (Alternate)
4M1 - John Exposed / The Roof
4M2/6M4A - Hip Hop Christmas (Source)
4M3 - Fire Alarm
4M3 Alt A - Fire Alarm (Alternate A)
4M3 Alt B - Fire Alarm (Alternate B)
4M3 Alt C - Fire Alarm (Alternate C)
4M3 Alt D - Fire Alarm (Alternate D)
4M4 - Searching for John
4M4A - Fight
4M5 - Small Feet
5M1/3 - He Won't Be Joining Us
5M4/6 - And If He Alters It
5M7 - Rooftop / Elevator Shaft
6M0 - Ducts
6M1 - Powell Arrives
6M1 Alt - Powell Arrives (Alternate)
6M2 - Let It Snow (Source)
6M3 - John Kills Marco
6M4 - Welcome To The Party, Pal
6M5 - Roy Rogers
6M5 P/U - Roy Rogers (Pick-Up)
7M2 - Holly And Hans
7M3 - They'll be Coming
8M1R - S.W.A.T.
8M1R Alt - S.W.A.T. (Alternate)
8M1A - Send in the Car
8M1B - The Assault
8M2A - Hit It Again
8M2A Alt - Hit It Again (Alternate)
9M1 Tk 1 - John Is Found Out (Take 1)
9M1 Tk 2 - John Is Found Out (Take 2)
9M2 - Attention Police
9M2 P/U - Attention Police (Pick-Up)
10M1 - Gruber's Deception
10MX (mixed for 10M2) - Bill Clay
10M3 - Shoot The Glass
11M1 - Put Me Down For Twenty
11M3 - The Vault (Original Version)
11M3/4A Tk 16 - The Vault (Take 16)
11M3/4A Tk 17 - The Vault (Take 17)
11M5 - The Feds
11M5X - The Feds (Wild)
11M7 - Earning 20%
11M7 Alt - Earning 20% (Alternate)
12M1 - Gun In Cheek
12M2 - Karl & John Fight
12M3 - I'll Kill You
12M4 - Karl Gets Hung
12M4 Wild P/U - Karl Gets Hung (Wild Pick-Up)
12M5 - Helicopters
12M5X - Helicopters (Percussion Only)
12M7 - John's Big Jump
13M1 - Enough Jokes
13M2 - The Big Fall
14M0 - Aftermath
14M1 - Powell's Comeback
Roy Rogers Meets Beethoven's Ninth (Source)
Roy Rogers Meets Beethoven's Ninth (Source) (Alternate)
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