Round 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.” 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 blue light on a TV in a house full of twitching animatronic body parts. (15[1])Sesame Street actress Sonia Manzano suggested that this musician score Death Wish. Luc Besson cast this musician as the Minister of Defense in (*) Valerian. This musician included a cover of Tiny Bradshaw’s “Train Kept-a-Rollin’,” featuring guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds, on a soundtrack for an Italian director. Ennio Morricone’s score for The Mission lost the Oscar for Original Score 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”? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary