Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe - 2000)

The soundtrack of Almost Famous, the excellent film about rock music in the seventies directed by Cameron Crow in 2000, was organized by the rock composer Nancy Wilson, previously leader of the femal rock group Heart. Of course the soundtrack is mainly based on musical pieces of the seventies. More than 50 songs and musics were utilized in the film. Of course, only a selection of this list is included in the CD issued with the movie's soundtrack.


The selection includes many rock champions of the seventies, of course the Led Zeppelin, their forerunners, the Deep Purple and the Who, together with Simon & Garfunkel and Neil Young, up to Jimi Hendrix and the heavy metal first popular band the Black Sabbath, but even a progressive band as the Yes is present.

The southern rock is widely mentioned, with the Allman Brothers, the Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Little Feat, together with alternative and soul champions as Joni Mitchell or Stevie Wonder. In evidence the pop star Elton John: two famous songs of the British composer are used in two key moments of the film (Tiny Dancer and Mona Lisa).

To be mentioned also a not so widely known song of the British group Thunderclap Newman, an almost revolutionary piece called Something In The Air (something that is ... the revolution) from the album Hollywood Dream (1969, produced by Pete Townshend of the Who) covered many times and used also in other movies, as for example The Strawberry Statement of Stuart Hagman (1970), to give the flavor of the era.

For the imaginary band, The Stillwater, were instead composed new pieces, but perfectly aligned to the seventies style, between them the main theme of the movie, Fever Dog.

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You can read the complete soundtrack, the CD soundtrack, a summary of the plot, a selection of images captured by the movie, the characters, the interpreters, the original screenplay on Music-Graffiti website.