This marked the beginning of a long collaboration between the two, and Danny has provided the music for most of Burton’s films ever since. In 1985, director Tim Burton, a fan of Oingo Boingo, asked Danny to provide the musical score for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. The group’s name went through many incarnations before eventually becoming just Oingo Boingo. It wasn’t until the early 1970s that Danny and his older brother Richard Elfman started a musical troupe in Paris the group “The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo” was created for Richard’s 1980 directorial debut, Forbidden Zone (now considered a cult classic by Elfman fans). I was definitely a film music nerd-but it never occurred to me to actually do it.”Īs a young man, Danny roamed France and across Africa absorbing local musical trends-largely unaware of his own talent for composing. I loved playing the game of tuning into a movie on television, trying to guess who the composer was, then seeing if I was right. “I could hear something and go, ‘That’s definitely Max Steiner,’ and Nino Rota was huge. “I could listen to the scores of Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Erich Korngold and identify them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Daniel Elfman grew up immersed in movie music.
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