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VANITY FAIR LAUGHING IN THE 'PURPLE RAIN': Prince LP chosen as greatest film soundtrack ever; Beyonce, Blige in corresponding TV special.
*Vanity Fair magazine has spoken. Prince's soundtrack to his semi-autobiographical 1984 film "Purple Rain" has been crown by the publication as the greatest film soundtrack of all time.
Editors of the magazine said the movie was "perhaps the best badly acted film ever," while its soundtrack combined "funk, R&B, pop, metal, and even psychedelia into a sound that defined the '80s."
The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" placed second on the list of 50, followed by "The Harder They Come," "Pulp Fiction," "The Graduate," "Superfly," "Trainspotting," "Saturday Night Fever," "American Graffiti" and "The Big Chill" rounding out the top 10.
The full list will be revealed next month in a one-time Conde Nast magazine, Movies Rock, for subscribers of its 14 titles. The issue will feature stories and photos of the projects, stars, directors and musicians who created the selected movies.
A two-hour CBS broadcast of the same title will premiere Dec. 7 with artists Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and others performing some of the songs from the list.
Beyonce will sing "Over the Rainbow," Fergie and Jennifer Hudson will pay tribute to Bond films with "Live and Let Die" and "Goldfinger," and John Legend and Mary J. Blige will sing "As Time Goes By."
"We wanted to create an extraordinary show that would pay tribute to the indelible impact music has on film," Conde Nast Media Group president Richard Beckman says of the event, which will be taped at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Dec. 2.
