I would work like crazy.”Īnd even that’s an understatement. While producing for an army of iconic artists during the first wave of disco-dance, Moroder was also becoming a booming cinema presence. He won his first Oscar for his music in 1978’s Midnight Express, and then two more for “Flashdance… What a Feeling” and Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away,” from Top Gun. In 1983, he intensified Scarface with his music (he produced the soundtrack), and also contributed to the 1984 children’s fantasy classic The NeverEnding Story, for which he produced the theme song.Īt 75, his own story, it seems, is neverending. Thanks to a much-deserved salute to Moroder on their latest opus, the track "Giorgio by Moroder" from 2013’s Grammy-winning Random Access Memories, Daft Punk prompted a welcome resurgence. "My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio,” he adorably notes during the spoken-word, EDM-charged caper. And as he looks back on his teenage years, he says “(my) dream was so big that I didn’t see any chance.”īut other dreamers did. Some – for instance, RCA Records, who commissioned his latest offering, D é j à Vu – even gave him the chance.Ĭould anyone have predicted that Giorgio Moroder would change the future of music? Probably.
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