Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2013 June 14 • Friday

The second film in the Man with No Name trilogy, For a Few Dollars More (1965), proved to be the most lucrative Italian film ever made (significantly eclipsing the previous front-runner, La Dolce Vita), and this was in no small part due to the success of its music. Morricone's idiosyncratic idiom had been retained even though one of the production team dared to suggest Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain as a possible substitute—at which Leone literally threw the offending jazz album out of the window….


— Mervyn Cooke, A History of Film Music, 2008