Birdy (Peter Gabriel album)
Birdy is the first soundtrack and sixth album overall by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel, for the movie of the same name, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). The album marked Gabriel's first work with producer Daniel Lanois. It was remastered with most of Gabriel's catalogue in 2002. In addition to composing new pieces for the soundtrack, Gabriel also used instrumental themes and sections from earlier works to form the basis of some tracks. There were, however, no songs with lyrics on the album. Track listing. All songs written by Peter Gabriel . In popular culture. The piece "Birdy's Flight" was later used by Hong Kong film director John Woo as part of the score to his "A Better Tomorrow" films. Other parts of the score were used in Tsui Hark's 1986 movie "Peking Opera Blues". The track "The Heat" was used in 1994 Movie "Natural Born Killers".