Holly Johnson on Bladerunner
“That film came at a particular moment in my life when I was dreaming dreams about the future,” Johnson said of Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece, for which Vangelis wrote the score.
“It was just the most exciting thing, visually and sonically, I’d ever seen. I went to the cinema to see it when it came out and it was very, very affecting in lots of ways.”
He added: “I got the call from Vangelis’s assistant to say, ‘Vangelis would like you to write a song using this music’. I was summoned to Paris, where he was living in the Plaza Athénée hotel opposite Avenue Montaigne, where Marlene Dietrich lived across the road.
“He took me to this underground bunker [originally designed for Hitler’s occupation] in the Bois de Boulogne. It was this recording studio with what seemed like a thousand synthesisers – every synth ever made was at his disposal.
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