The soundtrack for the 1986 Anglo-French cinema film ''

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'' is the only solo album to date by

The Edge David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp. 21, 23–24 is an English-born Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing voca ...

, guitarist of U2. It is also the only solo album to date by one of the members of U2. The Edge approached

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, creator of the

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, which The Edge regularly uses, to collaborate on this soundtrack album; Brook co-produced and helped with the instrumentals and some of the writing. Edge also approached a young vocalist just beginning to appear on the Dublin scene to provide vocals for the main theme. This was

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, who would shortly afterwards release her debut album. She and The Edge's U2 bandmate

Larry Mullen Jr. Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. (; born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2. Mullen was born in Dublin, where he attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School. In 1976, he co-founded U2 ...

contributed to "Heroine", with O'Connor providing lead vocals and Mullen providing drums. The music on ''Captive'' is a mix of

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styles. The majority of tracks, except tracks 2 and 4 are instrumentals. The track "Heroine" was released as a single.

Track listing

All tracks written by

except where noted. # "Rowena's Theme" – 3:56 # "Heroine" (Theme from ''Captive'') (music by The Edge, lyrics by The Edge and

) – 4:27 # "One Foot in Heaven" – 5:10 # "The Strange Party" – 5:35 # "Hiro's Theme I" – 4:16 # "Drift" – 2:20 # "The Dream Theme" – 3:36 # "Djinn" (

) – 3:02 # "Island" – 1:53 # "Hiro's Theme (Reprise)" – 1:37

Personnel

and

– all instruments except: * Lesley Bishop –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

on "Rowena's Theme" *

Larry Mullen Jr Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. (; born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2. Mullen was born in Dublin, where he attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School. In 1976, he co-founded U2 ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

on "Heroine" *

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

on "Heroine" *

Steve Lillywhite Stephen Alan Lillywhite, (born 15 March 1955) is a British record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited on over 500 records, and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including new wave acts XTC, Big ...

– remix of "Heroine"

References

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