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 Christopher Palmer Music recorded by Dick Lewsey

Music Performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Maurice Jarre

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).