She might as well have been singing the latest bit of background fodder from American Idol for how much you could tell that it was an Ennio Morricone tune. But that's who Celine Dion is.

In 2017, James Hetfield participated in a Q&A alongside a screening of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and detailed the origin of band’s use of “The Ecstasy of Gold,” attributing the idea to use the ...

The band has played "The Ecstasy of Gold," part of Morricone's score for the 1966 Sergio Leone-directed movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, before its concerts for decades.

Metallica have been using Italian film composer Ennio Morricone 's "The Ecstasy of Gold" as their concert intro music since 1983, an ongoing indication of the movie maestro's significant influence ...

Ennio Morricone was the movies. Turn on a Morricone soundtrack, close your eyes, and be transported to a genre paradise of gunslinging action, lush eroticism, and heart-stopping beauty.

Metallica has used Morricone’s “The Ecstasy of Gold,” part of his unforgettable score for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as introductory music for its concerts for decades. It also appears ...

Metallica's James Hetfield took to Instagram on Monday morning to remember Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone, who composed 1966's "The Ecstasy Of Gold," which has opened the band's shows for over 30 ...

Besides his film music, Morricone wrote more than 150 concert works, which he considered absolute music, many avant-garde. There is a very good chance that you’ve heard none of them.

But then for a man of Morricone’s stature, performing a “My Life in Music” retrospective of his favourite scores from his 400-plus film credits, perhaps it’s only fair that so many ...

After years of using the legendary Spaghetti Western composer's music in his soundtracks, Quentin Tarantino's new revenge Western marks his first full-fledged collaboration with Ennio Morricone.