Based on S.E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders featured a group of young actors destined for stardom - Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise. The score to the film was written by Francis Coppola's father Carmine who contributed music for all three Godfather films, and shared an Academy Award for Part II with Nino Rota. This 30th anniversary re-mastered edition is the most complete version of the soundtrack and contains much unreleased music from the film, most notably Stevie Wonder's tender and beguiling ballad 'Stay Gold'...

Silva Screen Records has released a remastered, 30th anniversary edition of Carmine Coppola’s epic Hollywood vintage style score to Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 teen gang movie.

Coppola's score to The Outsiders is one that had passed me by all these years, but I'm glad that Silva Screen has remastered and reissued this album because it's an impressive collection of tracks that sound more in keeping with '40s/'50s lush Hollywood big budget movie scores than the electric rock guitar fuelled themes that were the backdrop to so many '80s teen movies.

The album contains 17 tracks, with a running time of 55 mins. Tracks like 'Bob is Dead' and 'Rumble Variation / Dallas' Death' wouldn't have sounded out of place in any one of a number of Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

There are also four vocal tracks, two versions of Stevie Wonder's 'Stay Gold' (which is echoed throughout the orchestral score); and Bill Hughes singing 'The Outside in' and 'Stay Gold'.

If you're a collector of classic scores or a fan of The Outsiders then you're in for a treat with this impressive soundtrack.

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Darren Rea