Packet 3: Tossup 13

The bassline of a song from this musician’s debut film soundtrack forms the riff of Deee-Lite’s “Groove is in the Heart.” (15[1])Because this musician grew up in the same neighborhood as Sam Greenlee, he scored Ivan Dixon’s film of Greenlee’s novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door. In a music video shot by Roger Deakins, this musician plays a synth under (15[1])blue light on a TV in a house full of twitching animatronic body parts. (15[1])Sesame Street actress Sonia (15[2])Manzano (15[3])suggested that this musician score Death Wish. Luc Besson cast this musician as the Minister (15[1])of Defense in (*) Valerian. This musician included a cover of Tiny Bradshaw’s (-5[1])“Train Kept-a-Rollin’,” featuring guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds, (-5[1])on a soundtrack for an Italian director. Ennio Morricone’s score for The Mission lost the Oscar for Original Score (-5[1])to this musician’s work on Round Midnight. For 10 points, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up was scored by what composer of “Rockit” and “Watermelon Man”? (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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