6LP 140gm Vinyl Box Set. Demon Music group in conjunction with the Hughes family are proud to present the first official compilation of music from the movies of legendary filmmaker John Hughes, covering the classic eighties period from 1983-1989. For anyone growing up in the 1980s, the films of John Hughes are some of the most iconic of the decade and have created a lasting cultural impact still felt and referenced across TV, film and music. As well as the characters and stories created in these iconic movies, what made John Hughes' movies different from the rest was the symbiotic relationship between scene and music. Whether Cameron Frye staring at the painting in Ferris Bueller's Day Off set to The Dream Academy's "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)", Duckie and Andie from Pretty In Pink at prom set to Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's "If You Leave", or even Neal and Del's classic "Those aren't pillows" scene from Planes, Trains and Automobiles set to Emmylou Harris' "Back In Baby's Arms". Also includes an extensive 24-page booklet including memories from Matthew Broderick, James Hughes, Tarquin Gotch, Ron Payne, plus track-by-track sleeve notes.

Tracklist:

Kajagoogoo - Kajagoogoo (Instrumental)
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Dave Wakeling - She's Having a Baby
The Flowerpot Men - Beat City
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy
Dr. Calculus - Full of Love
Lick the Tins - Can't Help Falling in Love
Steve Earle ; the Dukes - Six Days on the Road (Album Version)
Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (Soundtrack Version)
Suzanne Vega ; Joe Jackson - Left of Center
Pete Shelley - Do Anything (Soundtrack Version)
Carmel - It's All in the Game
The Dream Academy - Power to Believe (Instrumental)
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
The Beat - March of the Swivelheads (Rotating Heads - Dub Version)
Nick Heyward - When It Started to Begin
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Tesla Girls
Big Audio Dynamite - Bad
Killing Joke - Eighties
The Specials - Little Bitch
Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Come and Get It) (Us Club Mix
Flesh for Lulu - Slide
Love and Rockets - Haunted When the Minutes Drag
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)
Lords of the New Church - Method to My Madness
The Jesus and Mary Chain - the Hardest Walk (Single Version)
Echo ; the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
General Public - Tenderness
The Blue Room - I'm Afraid
Belouis Some - Round, Round
Thompson Twins - If You Were Here
The Dream Academy - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)
Yello - Oh Yeah
Book of Love - Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness
Patti Smith - Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
Westworld - Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo
Divinyls - Ring Me Up
Topper Headon - Drummin' Man
Billy Idol - Catch My Fall
The Association - Cherish
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music for a Found Harmonium
Zapp - Radio People
The Blue Room - Cry Like This
Ray Charles - Mess Around
Joe Turner - Lipstick, Powder and Paint
Darlene Love - (Today I Met) the Boy I'm Gonna Marry
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers - Juke Box Baby
The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman
Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - the Peter Gunn Theme
Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road
Emmylou Harris - Back in Baby's Arms
Hugh Harris - Rhythm of Life
Spandau Ballet - True
Propaganda - Abuse - Here
The Dream Academy - the Edge of Forever
Yello - Lost Again (Album Version)
Bryan Ferry - Crazy Love
The Rave-Ups - Positively Lost Me
Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby
Steve Earle - Continental Trailways Blues (Album Version)
The Revillos - Rev Up!
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Balaam and the Angel - I'll Show You Something Special
The Rave-Ups - Rave Up/Shut Up
Pop Will Eat Itself - Beaver Patrol
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Silicon Teens - Red River Rock

UPC: 5014797907799
Label: Demon/edsel
Release Date: 11.11.22
Format: Vinyl

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