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The Oscar win for H.E.R., D’Mile and Thomas comes just six weeks after they won a Grammy for song of the year for “I Can’t Breathe.” This is the first time in 35 years that a songwriter or songwriting team has won an Oscar in the same awards season that they won a Grammy for song of the year for a different song. Lionel Richie won both awards in 1986. He and Michael Jackson shared the Grammy for song of the year on Feb. 25, 1986 for “We Are The World.” On March 24 of that year, he won the Oscar for “Say You, Say Me” from
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The three artists soundtrack for the 1987 film will be available on vinyl for the first time in more than three decades
Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, and Cong Su s score to
The Last Emperor is being reissued this March.
The Bernardo Bertolucci-directed film, released in 1987, tells the story of Pu Yi, the last monarch of the Chinese Qing dynasty, prior to the republican revolution in 1911. Its score sees Sakamoto, Byrne and Su aim to emulate the musical traditions of Imperial China with the use of traditional percussion instruments and Erhu – a two-stringed bowed fiddle. You can listen to the film s main theme above.