A massively successful and influential film composer, Italian conductor and
orchestrator Ennio Morricone (born on November 10, 1928) is indelibly associated
with the distinctively original soundtracks for the "spaghetti western" movies -
notably A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West. Throughout his decades-spanning career,
he has influenced a varied list of artists such as Danger Mouse, Metallica, and
Radiohead, just to name a few. The son of Italian jazz trumpeter Mario
Morricone, he composed his own music ...