Simon Franglen born Westminster , London , England is an English composer of classical and film music. He cites himself as a former record producer and musician. His credits include four of the list of top grossing films and six of the list of best-selling albums of all time. In , he premiered a new large scale orchestral and choral work for live performance, the oratorio "The Birth of Skies and Earth", based on the great Chinese creation myths. A ninety-minute work, with libretto in Mandarin Chinese, it premiered in Shanghai, with musicians on stage, featuring a 90 piece orchestra, 80 voice choir, and six soloist singers. Subsequently it toured around China. It was announced that, in , Franglen would be composing a new large scale opera set against the backdrop of the Second World War in Asia.
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Titanic was the film that was going to bring down two studios, Fox and Paramount. The movie was meant to come out July 3; in April, it was still almost five hours long. His favorite bands were Ministry and Metallica. Jim was open to the idea of hearing it. We knew we were buying the rights to a score album only. No one had even come close to paying that. Horner was a romantic about life, you know? Listen to me. Why do we need to break our nose?
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It serves as the main theme song to James Cameron 's blockbuster film Titanic , based on an account of the transatlantic passenger liner of the same name which sank in after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. The song's music was composed by James Horner , its lyrics were written by Will Jennings , while the production was handled by Walter Afanasieff , Horner and Simon Franglen. The music video was directed by Bille Woodruff and released at the end of Dion performed the song to honor the 20th anniversary of the film at the Billboard Music Awards on May 21, James Horner had originally composed the music for the song as an instrumental motif which he used in several scenes during Titanic. He then wanted to prepare a full vocal version of it, to use during the film's end credits. Lyricist Will Jennings was hired, who wrote the lyrics "from the point of view of a person of a great age looking back so many years".
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