Transition from pop star to soundtrack composer

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Who could carry it off? Here's a few that were able to pull it off (for the most part)

Giorgio Moroder

Stewart Copeland

Bernard Edwards & Niles Rodgers

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Queen

AC/DC

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[Peter Venkman]

Hans Zimmer
Danny Elfman
Mark Knopfler
Vangelis

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Mark Mothersbaugh

[Peter Venkman]

I nearly forgot; the Alan Parsons Project tried their hand at scoring with Ladyhawke.

Worst.

Score.

Ever.

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[My Aural Stimulator]

Anne Dudley has done lotsa stuff since she booted the Art of Noise out of her bed. Like, the soundtrack to "The Full Monty," for example.

[2Nu]

Stan Ridgeway teamed with Stewart Copeland on the Soundtrack for the '83 Coppola film 'Rumblefish' the featured song was 'Don't Box Me In'

David Bowie & Pat Metheny collaborated for a the featured song 'This is Not America' on the '85 Tim Hutton / Sean Penn flick 'The Falcon & The Snowman'

Bowie also did the track 'Underground' for the '86 Henson film 'Labyrinth'

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[Rokkr]

Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo are without a doubt the most prolific and successful of those who've made the transition.

Oh and Trevor Rabin's in the ballpark too.

[SomebodySomewhere]

Well, he certainly doesn't qualify as a pop star here, but I understand Serge Perathoner is well-known in France. He was in the new wave-ish group, Blue Rose, as well as a number of earlier bands with some of the same people (Christian Leroux and the late David Rose) that weren't remotely new wave.

[tiger_mn]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Peter Venkman[/i]
<br>I nearly forgot; the Alan Parsons Project tried their hand at scoring with Ladyhawke.

Worst.

Score.

Ever.
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Sorry, gotta throw the penalty flag here. Andrew Powell scored this one, and had most of the Project play on it.

Not a good effort, I agree.

Iva Davies of Icehouse did two OST's, Razorback and more recently, Master and Commander.

And to 2Nu's comment, Bowie did several other songs on the Labyrinth soundtrack, "Underground" being the least good. But his work on Cat People is his best movie work.

The Cure's "Burn", from the Crow, may be their best track in 20 years.

[thefxc]

SPK were hardly a pop band (up until "Junk Funk", at least) but Graeme Revell's transition from scary industrial dude to bigtime Hollywood soundtrack dude has been phenomenal.

[NewWave83]

Stuart Adamson & Big Country did an amazing soundtrack to the Scottish film Restless Natives.

[Justj0hn]

Not necessarily pop stars and also who haven't made soundtrack work a fulltime job.

Lisa Gerrard[Dead Can Dance](with the help of Hans Zimmer who'd already been mentioned)
Clint Mansell[Pop Will Eat Itself]
Aimee Mann([i]Magnolia[/i], ya?)
Robin Guthrie[Cocteau Twins]
Mark Kozelek[Red House Painters]
Jim Thirlwell[Foetus]
David Byrne[Talking Heads]
Peter Gabriel
Thomas Dolby
Nick Cave

"No telling what keeps me awake."

[Mechi]

Well, in Argentina we've got Gustavo Santaolalla... who won the Oscar for making the music of Brokeback Mountain's soundtrack and was a rock star during the 70s in our country.
Then he moved on to produce Shakira, Juanes and all that stuff that I really don't care for (but I'm sure he has earned loads of money for it).
And developed electronic tango which was a brilliant and commercial idea.

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