He employs song structures from Tin Pan Alley and early musical theatre composers (32-bar form), and pop and rock of the 1950s and 1960s (verse-chorus).
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, and songwriter.
He employs song structures from Tin Pan Alley and early musical theatre composers (32-bar form), and pop and rock of the 1950s and 1960s (verse-chorus).
He also composed original pieces and helped build instruments unique for the group, including an aluminum gamelan, the 'Schlitz celeste' made from tuned beer cans, and a "junkyard orchestra" built from car parts and trash cans. The Mystic Knights performed on the street and in nightclubs throughout Los Angeles until Richard left in 1979 to pursue filmmaking.
Elfman composed the songs and his first score for the film, and appeared as the character Satan, who performs a reworked version of Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" with ensemble members playing backup as henchmen. Before the release of Forbidden Zone, Elfman had taken over the Mystic Knights as lead singer-songwriter in 1979, paring the group down to eight players, shortening the name to Oingo Boingo, and recording and touring as a ska-influenced new wave band.
He came to prominence as the singer-songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s.
Elfman shifted the band to a more guitar-oriented rock sound in the late 1980s, which continued through their last album Boingo in 1994. Citing permanent hearing damage from performing live and conflicts with his film-scoring career, Elfman retired Oingo Boingo in 1995 with a series of five sold-out final concerts at the Universal Amphitheatre ending on Halloween night.
Elfman described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life. Following Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Elfman scored mainly quirky comedies in the late 1980s, including Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield, Burton's Beetlejuice and the Bill Murray vehicle Scrooged.
According to him, he is a cynicologist. Describing his politics during the 1980s, Elfman said, "I'm not a doomist.
Their biggest success among eight studio albums penned by Elfman was 1985's Dead Man's Party, featuring the hit song "Weird Science" from the movie of the same name.
Elfman told the audience the performance was "20 years to the day" of Oingo Boingo's retirement. ===Film scoring=== As fans of Oingo Boingo, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985.
The band also appeared performing their single "Dead Man's Party" in the 1986 movie Back to School, for which Elfman also composed the score.
Elfman shifted the band to a more guitar-oriented rock sound in the late 1980s, which continued through their last album Boingo in 1994. Citing permanent hearing damage from performing live and conflicts with his film-scoring career, Elfman retired Oingo Boingo in 1995 with a series of five sold-out final concerts at the Universal Amphitheatre ending on Halloween night.
Elfman shifted the band to a more guitar-oriented rock sound in the late 1980s, which continued through their last album Boingo in 1994. Citing permanent hearing damage from performing live and conflicts with his film-scoring career, Elfman retired Oingo Boingo in 1995 with a series of five sold-out final concerts at the Universal Amphitheatre ending on Halloween night.
In 1998, Elfman scored A Simple Plan, starring Fonda. He is the uncle of actor Bodhi Elfman, who is married to actress Jenna Elfman. Elfman has been an atheist since the age of 11 or 12.
Elfman scored Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002 and Spider-Man 2 in 2004, themes and selections from which were used for Raimi's Spider-Man 3, though Elfman did not compose the score.
Elfman and his daughter collaborated on her 2011 film Do Not Disturb. On November 29, 2003, Elfman married actress Bridget Fonda.
Elfman scored Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002 and Spider-Man 2 in 2004, themes and selections from which were used for Raimi's Spider-Man 3, though Elfman did not compose the score.
In 2005, he wrote the score and songs for Burton's Corpse Bride and provided the voice of the character of Bonejangles, as well as providing the score, songs and Oompa-Loompa vocals for Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that same year.
Since then, I've kind of mellowed in between." Several of his songs written for Oingo Boingo during this period satirized social politics, although Elfman stated his message was to "question, resist, challenge" and that his songs were not aligned to any one political agenda. In 2008, Elfman expressed support for Barack Obama.
Elfman and his daughter collaborated on her 2011 film Do Not Disturb. On November 29, 2003, Elfman married actress Bridget Fonda.
On October 31, 2015, Elfman and Oingo Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek performed the song "Dead Man's Party" with an orchestra as an encore to a live-to-film concert of The Nightmare Before Christmas score at the Hollywood Bowl.
Since 2015, Elfman has appeared near annually in a Hollywood Bowl Halloween concert featuring full orchestra performing the Nightmare Before Christmas score live to the film projection. In 2019, it was announced Elfman had been commissioned to write a piece for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain originally set to premiere in 2020, and a percussion concerto for Colin Currie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra originally for spring 2021.
Since 2015, Elfman has appeared near annually in a Hollywood Bowl Halloween concert featuring full orchestra performing the Nightmare Before Christmas score live to the film projection. In 2019, it was announced Elfman had been commissioned to write a piece for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain originally set to premiere in 2020, and a percussion concerto for Colin Currie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra originally for spring 2021.
Since 2015, Elfman has appeared near annually in a Hollywood Bowl Halloween concert featuring full orchestra performing the Nightmare Before Christmas score live to the film projection. In 2019, it was announced Elfman had been commissioned to write a piece for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain originally set to premiere in 2020, and a percussion concerto for Colin Currie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra originally for spring 2021.
Other works in the planning phase are a cello concerto and a project that involves chamber orchestra and Elfman's own voice. It was announced that Elfman would be taking part in Coachella 2020 with a set titled "Past, Present and Future! From Boingo to Batman and Beyond!" Elfman clarified on his Instagram page that this would not be an Oingo Boingo reunion, writing "I’m creating a live mix of my last 40 years— both film music and songs...
For the 2020 Democratic National Convention, he scored the biographical video played ahead of Joe Biden's acceptance of the presidential nomination in the 2020 United States elections.
Since 2015, Elfman has appeared near annually in a Hollywood Bowl Halloween concert featuring full orchestra performing the Nightmare Before Christmas score live to the film projection. In 2019, it was announced Elfman had been commissioned to write a piece for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain originally set to premiere in 2020, and a percussion concerto for Colin Currie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra originally for spring 2021.
From January 2021, he released four following singles "Sorry", "Love In The Time of COVID", "Kick Me" and "True" on the 11th date of each month.
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