[CDs & Music] "Le Mans" - The OST (CD)

[Aysedasi]

For the Le Mans fan who has everything.

I've been waiting for a CD release of the soundtrack of 'Le Mans' for years and I spotted this, quite by chance on Amazon a few days ago, ordered it immediately and it arrived yesterday. I've just put it in the pc's player and it is sending goosebumps up my spine just listening to it.

Le Mans Soundtrack

Nice gatefold Digipak presentation with a little booklet with some good photos and Legrand's explanation of his involvement with the film. Also includes the soundtrack of another film, 'The Hunter' (Le Chasseur) for which Legrand apparently did the OST.

I've watched this damned film so many times (at least hundreds) since I first recorded it in 1985 off the TV (I still have the very tired video!) that I just love the music (despite the fact that I'd never normally listen to music like this) - particularly the opening credits piece. I can see the traffic queues and the guy getting off the train with his Union Jack even now as I write this...... (Very sad I know...... )

The one incongruous thing is that the front cover of the Digipak, aside from a small shot of the film poster, is a shot of the main straight at Reims (at dusk or dawn), with decaying grandstands..... Obviously whoever put the cover together thought that shot was more appropriate than a period photo of the real circuit!