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Hans Zimmer (b. 1957) is a German-born, England-based musician and film composer.
Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 12th September 1957, and moved to London as a teenager. While he lived in London, Zimmer wrote advertising jingles for Air-Edel Associates. Zimmer began his musical career playing keyboards and synthesisers. In 1980 he worked with The Buggles, a New Wave band formed in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downs, and Bruce Woolley. Zimmer can be briefly seen in the Buggles music video for “Video Killed the Radio” Star (1979).
In the 1980s, Zimmer worked with film composer Stanley Myers, a prolific film composer who composed scores for over sixty films. Zimmer and Myers co-founded the London-based Lillie Yard recording studio. Together, Myers and Zimmer worked on fusing the traditional orchestral sound with state-of-the-art electronics. Some of their first movies with this new sound include Moonlighting (1982), Success is the Best Revenge (1984), Insignificance (1985), and My Beautiful Launderette (1985). In 1986, Zimmer joined David Byrne and Ryuichi Sakamoto on their Oscar-winning score for The Last Emperor (1988).
Soon afterwards, Zimmer began working on his own solo projects. During his solo career years, Zimmer experimented and combi...
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Hoist The Colours
Now We Are Free
Dream is Collapsing
Half Remembered Dream
Up Is Down
Jack Sparrow
We Built Our Own World
Radical Notion
Davy Jones
Discombobulate
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Gladiator Soundtrack
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End Original Soundtrack (International Version)
Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest Original Soundtrack (English Version)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Black Hawk Down
The Last Samurai
The Da Vinci Code
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Gladiator
Sherlock Holmes: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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