Roy Budd
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British pianist and composer Roy Budd -- who died in 1993 at the age of 47 -- never dreamed he would score more than 50 films in his lifetime. And unlike many films, Budd's work is almost always original to his text, he rarely borrows from himself to stretch a new score out for filler. Tomorrow Never Comes is one of Budd's more inventive scores. Utilizing chamber strings, a full orchestra, and a pop combo -- sometimes all at once -- Budd takes his opening theme song, sung very cinematically by Matt Munro, and uses these various groups to take that theme into differing realms of tension and drama, all the while keeping its character in the back of the mind of the listener. While the story is a familiar one -- of a man becoming gradually unglued by his lover being seduced by another and reacting with violence to all who disagree with him -- Budd illustrates it differently. His score is one where empathy and compassion create a complex dynamic in the character and scene development, and hence drama becomes more than action, more than the resolution of a plot, it becomes the place where character and scene encounter one another and look for another way out. The cast in the film, which included Oliver Reed, Raymond Burr, and Donald Pleasance, gave him something to strive for. Tomorrow Never Comes is, if one of Budd's least-known scores, certainly one of his finest musically. Thom Jurek, All Music Guide Tracks:
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