THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS : GOODBYE HORSES | Q LAZZARUS - The Right Ear of Nash

 

A collection of singles, b-sides and demos from Q Lazzarus.

 

Notes:

Diane Luckey (1960-2022), known professionally as Q Lazzarus. A mysterious singer who is most well-known for the song "Goodbye Horses," which featured first in the 1988 film Married To The Mob and then again (and most famously) in the 1991 film The Silence Of The Lambs. She has also contributed music to the films Philadelphia and Something Wild. To this day, not much is known about her or her backing band, but Goodbye Horses has become a cult classic.

 

This collections is made up of two singles; tracks found on the original 1991 12" Single and 2017 Goodbye Horses EP. Track four is taken from the compilation Retro:Active2 (Rare & Remixed) which was released in 2004. I far as I can tell this is the first time the Extended Version appeared on CD (it also featured on the soundtrack to Clarks II but not until 2006). It has a different sound to the source used for track one (I suspect track one is a remaster or a new source as it's the clearest version I've heard to date). Track four sounds like it may have been a rip from the 12" Single.

This is just found on the great blog The Right Ear of Nash . . . . .I don’t post enough from there but this is brilliant! If you ever wondered like me what the sound was on the brilliant Silence of The Lambs soundtrack then here ’tis - it’s the mysterious Diane Luckey!

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I hadn’t realised she had died last year so here’s what the NME had to say

Buffalo Bill’s Dance

This is the original cover sleeve of the 'Goodbye Horses' single, so people can see that it is a woman singing. The picture is of Q Lazzarus. The song lyrics and composition by William Garvey (who died in 2009) and sung by Q Lazzarus