The soundtrack for the 1986 Anglo-French cinema film ''

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'' is the only solo album by

The Edge David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp. 21, 23–24 is a British-Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist o ...

, guitarist of U2. It is also the only solo album by one of the members of U2. The Edge approached

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, creator of the

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, which The Edge regularly uses, to collaborate on this soundtrack album; Brook co-produced and helped with the instrumentals and some of the writing. The Edge also approached a young vocalist just beginning to appear on the Dublin scene to provide vocals for the main theme. This was

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; , ; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and activist. Her debut studio album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and achieve ...

, who would the following year release her debut album. She and The Edge's U2 bandmate

Larry Mullen Jr. Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. (; born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2. A member of the band since its inception, he has recorded 15 studio albums with U2. Mullen's distinctive ...

contributed to "Heroine", with O'Connor providing lead vocals and Mullen providing drums. The music on ''Captive'' is a mix of

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styles. The majority of tracks, except tracks 2 and 4, are instrumentals. The track "Heroine" was released as a single.

Track listing

All tracks written by

except where noted. # "Rowena's Theme" – 3:56 # "Heroine" (Theme from ''Captive'') (music by The Edge, lyrics by The Edge and

) – 4:27 # "One Foot in Heaven" – 5:10 # "The Strange Party" – 5:35 # "Hiro's Theme I" – 4:16 # "Drift" – 2:20 # "The Dream Theme" – 3:36 # "Djinn" (

) – 3:02 # "Island" – 1:53 # "Hiro's Theme (Reprise)" – 1:37

Personnel

and

– all instruments except: * Lesley Bishop –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

on "Rowena's Theme" *

Larry Mullen Jr Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. (; born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock music, rock band U2. A member of the band since its inception, he has recorded 15 studio albums with U2. Mullen's d ...

–

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

on "Heroine" *

–

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

on "Heroine" *

Steve Lillywhite Stephen Alan Lillywhite (born 15 March 1955) is an English record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited on over 500 records, and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including new wave acts The Alarm ...

– remix of "Heroine"

References

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