Bill Conti
from Sound of Cinema Hosted by BBC Radio 3
Hollywood composer Bill Conti joins Matthew to talk about his career and music for film, which has included scores for James Bond, The Karate Kid and, perhaps most famously, Rocky. Among other things, Bill talks to Matthew about his early days as a musician and composer in Italy, about 'ghosting', about how he created the score for the original Rocky film back in the mid-1970s, about working on James Bond and about his love of the great scores from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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