Licensing challenges overcome, the double-CD runs 125 minutes, only four minutes shorter than the film itself. And who could know that Raging Bull would go on to become one of the most celebrated movies of its era? It seems astonishing 25 years later that there was no Raging Bull soundtrack album. The result was a collection of music that would have given a music licensing expert nightmares if a soundtrack album had been attempted at the time of the film's release. Scorsese did not employ a regular Hollywood composer to write a background score instead, he teamed with former Band guitarist Robbie Robertson in picking lots of period pop music of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, adding in excerpts from Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana, with Robertson bringing in a few instrumental tracks he cut with former compatriots Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel. Director Martin Scorsese is known for the care he takes in choosing the music for his movies (indeed, he is known for the care he takes in every detail of his movies), and his 1980 film Raging Bull, a screen biography of the boxer Jake LaMotta, was no exception.
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