Title: Bill Conti – Rocky Original Motion Picture Score
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1976, Soundtrack, Film Score, Providence, Rhode Island
Matrix #: UA-LA693-G
Condition: EX great, very clean
Cultural Facts:
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Media Narrative: Rocky was built from Stallone’s own script after he refused to sell it unless he could star.
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Studio Lore: Bill Conti was not the first composer pursued, but his score became inseparable from the film’s underdog myth.
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Scene Ecology: The Philadelphia locations gave the movie a working-class civic identity far beyond a standard boxing story.
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