Éric Serra

Éric Serra (born 9 September 1959) is a French musician and composer. He has often worked on films by Luc Besson.

Biography

Éric Serra's father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and, as such, Éric was exposed to music and its production at a young age. His mother died when he was just seven years old. In the early 1980s, Serra met director Luc Besson and was asked to score his first film, Le Dernier Combat (1983). Serra has scored all of Besson's directed films to date, except Angel-A (2005) (scored by Anja Garbarek), and several that Besson has written, such as Wasabi.

In 1995, Éric Serra was chosen to compose the score to the James Bond film GoldenEye, and produced a much more modern-sounding avant-garde soundtrack compared to previous Bond films. It met with mixed reviews from film critics. Serra's score is often criticized by Bond fans, and is considered the farthest departure from a traditional Bond score and, by some, as the most inappropriate in the series history. Others find it highly innovative, with the main problem the lack of the Monty Norman/John Barry traditional theme. The producers later hired John Altman to provide the music for the tank chase in St. Petersburg. Serra's original track for that sequence can still be found on the soundtrack as "A Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg".

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To Arms

by: Allele

Stoned, awakened by sight
A vision like, eyes under water
A change, of how I walk forth
Beside the Lion, because I want the world to see just
how I found,
That you're week and cowardess
FIGHT!
[Chorus:]
When hope is lost, and I'm still here
When no one else will stand and fight
And no one seems to care
Don't let the sky come down
Cause I'm still here
Throw your fists up, make them see it
Face to face, to arms
Denied, what helps you take flight
Pulled back to the ground, held under water
Left in a dark, cold and drowning sleep
Waiting for a nights feed, to wake and find what it
means to be a
KILLER!
[Chorus:]
When hope is lost, and I'm still here
When no one else will stand and fight
And no one seems to care
Don't let the sky come down
Cause I'm still here
Throw your fists up, make them see it
Face to face, to arms
TO ARMS




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