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malthaussen

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7. Some other covers:
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:09 PM
Apr 26

It made it into the computer game "Might and Magic VI.". Composed by Remo Giazotto, possibly as a "musical hoax." He claims to have based it on a fragment of a bass line by Albinoni that no one else has ever been able to find. Regardless, it has been used over and over in films, and covered by other bands, not just the Doors: Renaissance, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Sarah Brightman, inter alios.

Here's Annie Haslam and Renaissance:



And here's Yngwie with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra:



And Sarah Brighman:



-- Mal

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