Released on 13 March 1990 "Pretty Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" was the soundtrack album to the 1990 US romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, a hit movie that revitalized Richard Gere's career, and made a superstar of Julia Roberts. The album features the song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, which inspired the movie title. The soundtrack spawned three singles "Wild Women Do", "It Must Have Been Love" and "King Of Wishful Thinking".
A sort of modern Cinderella film, portraying a hooker with beautiful heart that captures the attention of a multimillionarie business man, a dark romantic comedy that made it big into the big screen in 1990, whether you love it or not.
The soundtrack is kinda of rare, a collection of diferent sort of bands and artists, maybe because the album belonged to an era when soundtracks were the songs used in a film, and weren't ways to synergistically cross-promote artists using songs that had nothing to do with the movie, or were "inspired" by the film, but don't actually appear within it.
So you have here, Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman," for obvious reasons, a nice remix of David Bowie "Fame '90" which was released simultaneosnly with the compilation "Changesbowie" the day before, and of course plenty of ‘90s pop, including Roxette and Go West who were used as a singles, even though many critics believe most of the songs are place in a very specific time and haven't aged well, but are a fantastic testimony of simpler times.
Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love", originally released in December 1987, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1990. It also includes "King of Wishful Thinking" by Go West, the odd one "Show Me Your Soul" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, "No Explanation" by Peter Cetera, "Wild Women Do" by Natalie Cole the first single and "Fallen" by Lauren Wood.
Pretty Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List:
1. Wild Women Do
2. Fame '90
3. King Of Wishful Thinking
4. Tangled
5. It Must Have Been Love
6. Life In Detail
7. No Explanation
8. Real Wild Child
9. Fallen
10. Oh. Pretty Woman
11. Show Me Your Soul
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