CAGE OF FREEDOM

In 1985 I was playing the drums in an eight members (!) band which also included two female backing singers. One of them one day lent me some LPs to show me her musical tastes. One of those LPs was the Soundtrack of the 1984 version of the "Metropolis" film done by record producer and musician Giorgio Moroder (who worked a lot with artists like Donna Summer and others during the Disco - Dance -Synth Pop Musical Fads in the seventies-eighties). That album has contributions from several New Wave, Rock, and Pop Rock musicians from the 70s-80s (Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Loverboy, Billy Squier...). I read the list of contributors to that soundtrack album in the cover, which also included JON ANDERSON, I listened to that album, and the only interesting song which I listened to was to Jon Anderson`s contribution, a song titled "Cage of Freedom" (composed by Moroder with Pete Bellote, being both a very successful songwriting team for Donna Summer in particular). The song is very Synth-Pop music influenced, very well produced with all the typical ingredients from that time (electronic drums, very eighties sounding keyboards,...).The song also includes a good distorted guitar playing. But...that is all. It was for me very strange to find Anderson in this very commercial soundtrack album, but his contribution is the only thing that I liked from this very out of date eighties`s musical product.

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