Ennio Morricone: Film Music 1966-1987 (Virgin)****
Richard Cook, Sounds, 6 February 1988
FILM SOUNDTRACKS are wretched records to keep because there's only a couple of minutes you want to remember on each one the lavish sweep of a particular theme, the chorus of one song. This indispensable collection gathers all those infernal little scraps of memory together.
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