Word: rundgren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...
Unlike other TV shows that have utilized rock music, Miami Vice can spend more than $10,000 per episode buying the rights to original recordings, rather than using made-for-TV imitations. The selections have ranged from '50s hits like the Coasters' Poison Ivy to recent numbers from Todd Rundgren, U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The rest of the show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster...