Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes

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The films of John Hughes are some of the most iconic of the 1980s, and they have created a lasting cultural impact still felt and referenced across TV, film and music. John was looking for emotion’: Tarquin Gotch and John Candy on the set of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Photograph: (await credit) John's son James Hughes on his father's relationship with music: "It serves as a reminder not just to the musicians he championed in the 1980s, but to how intensely his search for music expanded beyond this era. Until his final days,

What marks this compilation out is how deep Hughes – and Gotch – went for their cuts. While other movies of the era chased the latest pop wonder or pulled some past jukebox fave, Hughes’ films gave a platform to more alternative – and often British – fare.Life Moves Pretty Fast naturally leans heavily on the New Romantic and new wave scenes. All versions of the comp of course feature Simple Minds’“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” as well as songs by Kate Bush, Oingo Boingo, OMD, Big Audio Dynamite, the Psychedelic Furs, and more. According to John Hughes’ son James Hughes, who worked with Demon Music Group on the release, “It serves as a reminder not just to the musicians [John Hughes] championed in the 1980s, but to how intensely his search for music expanded beyond this era. Until his final days, he was still collecting outrageous amounts of music from around the world, galaxies removed from the New Romantic and new wave sounds that, to many, still define him.”

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental) [Ferris Bueller’s Day Off]– The Dream Academy They were 50s movies, weren’t they?” he says, laughing. “They were a spoof of a spoof, and that was his genre. But The Breakfast Club was on the other week, and I stayed up and watched it and thought: ‘This is an incredible film!’ I was amazed that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is so well thought of, and that people got obsessed with it. But I think it kept the band alive.” Demon Music group in conjunction with the Hughes family are proud to present the first official compilation of music from the movies of legendary filmmaker John Hughes, covering the classic eighties period 1983 – 1989. But even the simple act of matching an old song to a scene was hard work, Gotch recalls. “We’d go to John’s house in LA and go all night, endlessly trying things. John would say: ‘Let’s try some oompah music in here!’ He would just try things to see if they made it funnier.”

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Demon Music group in conjunction with the Hughes family are proud to present the first official compilation of music from the movies of legendary filmmaker John Hughes, covering the classic eighties period. What other Hollywood moviemaker would reach for Dr Calculus’ Full Of Love (from 1988’s She’s Having A Baby), The Specials’ Little Bitch ( Sixteen Candles) or The Beat’s March Of The Swivel Heads ( Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)?