Ascenseur pour l'échafaud: 2CD Hardback Book Thorr's Hammer Greenwood’s vocals also take centre-stage

Greenwood’s vocals also take centre-stage on the mournful gothic romance of ‘Ghosts Over Calvary’ and the funeral march elegy of the closing ballad ‘Damned and Doomed’

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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud: 2CD Hardback Book Thorr's Hammer Greenwood’s vocals also take centre-stageFirst released in 1958 by Fontana in Europe and Columbia in America, never had a soundtrack contributed as much to the fame of a film. The contradictory accounts of Miles Davis creation of the soundtrack have all become part of its legend. Rarely has a soundtrack been so decisive. Close to seven decades on, beyond the myth, this taut, feverish recording, imbued with extreme dramatic tension, remains one of the most iconic soundtracks in our catalogue