- 2023-09-01
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MUSIC
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Bastille & Hans Zimmer Team Up for New Version of “Pompeii”
British pop rock band Bastille, consisting of Dan Smith (vocals/keyboards), Kyle Simmons (keyboards), Will Farquarson (guitar), Chris 'Woody' Wood (drums), teamed up with German composer Hans Zimmer to release a new version of “Pompeii” on September 1, 2023.
The original version of the song is featured on the debut album “Bad Blood”, which was released in 2013.
The song is written as a conversation between two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The band frontman Dan Smith said of the song at that time in an interview with Radio X, “I was reading a book that had some picture of the people who got caught up in the volcanic eruption. And it's just such a kind of dark powerful image, and it got me thinking about how boring it must have been emotionally after the event. To be sort of stuck in that same position for hundreds and hundreds of years. So, the song is sort of an imaginary conversation between these two people who are stuck next to each other in their sort of tragic death pose.”
The new version was written by Dan Smith, Hans Zimmer, Andrew Christie, Russell Emanuel, and Steven Kofsky. Produced by Russell Emanuel, Dan Smith, Mark Crew, and Hans Zimmer.- source : Apple Music
