mad max beyond thunderdome music credits

Original Music Score Composed and Conducted by
Maurice Jarre
Tail Credits:
(Cast)
A solo saxophone is allegedly performed by Ton Ton Tattoo, played by Andrew Oh.
Assistant to Mr. Jarre
Music recorded by
Christopher Palmer
Dick Lewsey
Music Performed by
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Maurice Jarre
"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
Performed by
Tina Turner
Written by
Produced by
Terry Britten
Terry Britten
& Graham Lyle
Copyright © L985 Good Single Music Ltd. & My Axe Music Ltd.
"One of the Living"
Performed by
Tina Turner
(with Device)
Written by
Produced by
Holly Knight
Mike Chapman
Copyright © L985 Makiki Publishing Co. Ltd.
Tina Turner Management
Roger Davies
Original Soundtrack on
Capitol Records
(Australia/New Zealand - Festival Records)
Composer Maurice Jarre was a prolific French composer too well known to dwell on here. He
had only an intermittent connection with Australian cinema, though his work with Peter Weir begun on the 1982 The Year of Living Dangerously - was significant for both their careers.
Jarre's score is measurably better than the work done by Brian May on the first two Mad Max
films, and while some devotees might quibble about the softening represented by the addition
of Tina Turner, there's little doubt that her two title tunes enhanced the film's market presence
in the United States.
Jarre has a relatively detailed wiki here. It's a measure of the impact of the score that the
film's music boasts an individual wiki listing here, a rare distinction for an Australian movie.
It's worth noting that Terry "The Twilights" Britten, co-composer of the chart hit and end
credits song, "We Don't Need Another Hero", has had many connections with the Australian
pop music scene, and he has a relatively detailed wiki here. Co-composer of the song,
Graham Lyle, also has a relatively detailed wiki, here.
Composer of the head credits song "One of the Living", Holly Knight, is an American
musician, songwriter and singer, with a detailed wiki here, but the producer of the song, Mike
Chapman, was an Australian record producer and songwriter, born in Queensland and with
many UK hits in the 1970s, wiki here.
In the same way that the score has attracted attention over many years, the music for the film
has gone through a variety of releases. Jarre's score has been released on LP, CD and as a
two CD deluxe edition, with alternative cues, which will be of most interest to film music buffs.
The tracks include title music cues displaced by Turner's music, but didn't include these
songs because of rights issues:
Maurice Jarre and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: The Complete Motion Picture Score
Tadlow Music TADLOW009 2010 – original film released 1985
Disc 1:
1. Original Main Title Music 2'00"
2. Maxʼs Theme/The Desert 2'41"
3. Bartertown Theme 1'55"
4. Accents 2 Suspense 3'48"
5. Tragic Saxophone 0'40"
6. Heartbeat/Pigrock 3'48"
7. Master Blaster/The Manipulator/Embargo/Entity Humiliated 2'29"
8. The Discovery 2'01"
9. Conspiracy 0'35"
10. Thunderdome 4'52"
11. Darkness/Gulag 3'48"
12. Master in Underworld/Desert Hallucinating 5'21"
13. Magical 3'02"
14. Childrenʼs Theme 2'13"
15. Ceremony 1'12"
16. Confusion 1'14"
17. The Telling/I Ainʼt Captain Walker 4'01"
18. Compassion 3'18"
19. Tyrant 2'45"
20. The Leaving 5'05"
21. Underworld Takeover 2'19"
22. Arrival 2'59"
Disc 2:
1. Max and Savannah Escape 3'05"
2. Boarding the Train 2'22"
3. Bartertown Destruction 4'03"
4. The Big Chase! 11'44"
5. Epilogue 3'18"
6. Bartertown 8'27"
7. The Children 2'12"
8. Coming Home 15'15"
9. Piano Overdubs for The Big Chase! 2'37"
10. Organ Effects 0'39"
11. Plastic Tube Effects 0'47"
12. Wild Chords 0'25"
13. I Ainʼt Captain Walker, performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and
Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Nic Raine 5'02"
Disc 2 Tracks 6-8 previously released on original soundtrack LP – Capitol SWAV-12429, 1985
Disc 2 Track 13 previously released on Spectacular Music from the Silver Screen compilation
– Silva Screen ACCCD 1002, 1998
All other tracks previously unreleased
Tina Turner's songs were packaged in a number of forms, sometimes with some token
additions from the Jarre score:
Other releases included the original LP of the score:
LP Interfusion RML-53173 3 (CA RMC 53173) 1985 (CD Festival D 19755 1992)
Music Composed and Conducted by Maurice Jarre
Performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Concertmaster: Barry Griffith
Didgeridoo: Charles MacMahon
Ondes Martenot: Jeanne Loriod, Cynthia Millar, Dominique Kim
Assistant to Maurice Jarre: Christopher Palmer
Score Music Produced by Maurice Jarre
Music Recorded digitally at CTS Studios Ltd, London by Dick Lewzey
Assistant: Tim Pennington
Tinaʼs Operations Opps Inc., USA
“One Of The Living”, produced by Mike Chapman
Co-Produced and Remixed by Humberto Gatica, recorded at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles
Featuring DEVICE: Holly Knight - Keyboards, programming and backing vocals
Gene Black - Guitars and Background Vocals
Tim Cappello - Saxophone Solo
© 1985 by The Makiki Publishing Co. Ltd.
Administered by Arista Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
DEVICE appear courtesy of Chrysalis Records Intersong Music
“We Donʼt Need Another Hero”, produced by Terry Britten
Engineered and mixed by John Hudson
Assistant Engineer: Mike Ging
Recorded at Mayfair Studios - London
Terry Britten - Guitars, Bass Guitar
Nick Glennie Smith - Keyboards
Tim Cappello - Saxophone
Charlie Morgan/Graham Brood - Drums/Percussion
Kings House School Choir.
© 1985 by Myaxe Music Limited (ASCAP)
Good Single Limited
Administered by Irving Music Inc. (BMI)
Festival Music/Rondor Music
SIDE 1:
1. We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (6'07")
(T. Britten - G. Lyle), vocals: Tina Turner (Festival/Rondor)
2. One Of The Living (5'48") (Holly Knight), vocals: Tina Turner (Intersong)
3. We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) Instrumental (6'30") (T. Britten - G. Lyle)
(Festival/Rondor).
SIDE 2:
1. Bartertown (8'28") (Maurice Jarre) (Control)
2. The Children (2'11") (Maurice Jarre) (Control)
3. Coming Home (15'10") (Maurice Jarre) (Control)
A Philippines manufactured edition came with a Mel Gibson/Tina Turner poster.
LP Capitol SWAV-12429 (CA 4XV-12429) 1985
There were also single releases:
45 Interfusion K-9758 1985 Also issued in limited edition picture sleeve
Tinaʼs Operations Opps Inc., USA.
Produced by Terry Britten
Side A:
We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (4'15") (Terry Britten - Graham Lyle), (Festival/
Rondor). vocals: Tina Turner
Side B:
We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (Instrumental) (4'41") (Terry Britten - Graham
Lyle), (Festival/Rondor).
45 Interfusion K-9776 1985, also issued in limited edition picture sleeve
Tinaʼs Operations Opps Inc., USA
Produced by Mike Chapman
Co-produced by Humberto Gatica
Additional Production and Mix
by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero @ Media Sound, NYC
Side A:
One Of The Living (Edited Version) (Holly Knight) (Intersong), vocals: Tina Turner
Side B:
One Of The Living (Dub Mix) (Holly Knight) (Intersong), vocals: Tina Turner
There was also a 12" single release:
45/12 Interfusion X-13216 1985 (Limited edition picture sleeve)USA Capitol - 12CL 364
Side A:
We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome), extended mix (6'07") (Terry Britten - Graham
Lyle), (Festival/Rondor), produced by Terry Britten, vocals: Tina Turner
Side B:
We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome), instrumental, remixed dub version (6'30")
(Terry Britten - Graham Lyle), (Festival/Rondor), produced by Terry Britten, vocals: Tina
Turner
We Donʼt Need Another Hero (Thunderdome), single version (4'15")
(Terry Britten - Graham Lyle), (Festival/Rondor), produced by Terry Britten, vocals: Tina
Turner
The songs have also been anthologised in too many editions to be listed here.
Lyrics for the two songs:
One of the Living (over head credits):
In the desert sun
Every step that you take could be the final one
In the burning heat
Hanging on the edge of destruction
Mmm, you can't stop the pain of your children
Crying out in your head
They always said that the living
Would envy the dead
So now you're gonna shoot
Bullets of fire
Don't want to fight - but sometimes you got to
You're some strong survivor
There's just one thing you've got to know
You got ten more thousand miles to go
Because you're
(Album transcription: But you're)
One of the living
N' if we can't stick together
One of the living
Who's gonna make it tonight?
Yeah, yeah, yeahy … ooohoh …yeahhooh … (repeat)
(The music over the head credits fades out at this point, to be replaced by wind whistling over
a hight shot of the vast desert below. The album transcription of the lyrics continues):
Walk tall - cool, collected and savage
Walk tall - bruised, sensual … ravaged
It's very man for himself
Every woman every child
A new breed - ferocious and wild
N' all they want to do is
Shoot bullets of fire
They want to fight … and sometimes you got to
You're some soul survivor
There's just one thing you've got to know
You've got ten more thousand years to go
Because you're
One of the living
N' if we can't stick together
One of the living
Who's gonna make it tonight?
We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (over tail credits):
Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation (whispered, generation, generation)
We are the ones they left behind
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change, change
Living under the fear, till nothing else remains (with chorus)
We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
The Thunderdome
Looking for something
We can rely on
There's got to be something better out there
Love and compassion
Their day is coming (with chorus, repeat coming)
All else are castles built in the air
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change, change
Living under the fear till nothing else remains
All the children say
We don't need another hero (with chorus)
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
The Thunderdome
So what do we do with our lives?
We leave only a mark
Will our story shine like a light
Or end in the dark?
Give it all or nothing
(A saxophone takes over the following vocal lines, which are then sung)
We don't need another hero (chorus hero, hero)
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome …
Wow, all the children say …
(children's chorus)
We don't need another hero …
(Turner: We don't need another hero)
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome … (music fades down as wind noises are mixed in)
(Below: some of the many releases of the music score and songs, including the poster
version, and the original Australian Philips cassette release using BASF tape).