![]() Solo worksĭiCola released his first solo work in 1986, an album simply titled Piano Solos. ![]() ![]() However, this interview is not present on the 20th Anniversary Edition released by Sony and BMG in 2006.ĭiCola credits his work on Transformers with getting his music exposed to a much wider audience and getting him the most attention and fame he has had as an artist. He has been a guest at multiple Transformers conventions, including appearances at BotCon'97, BotCon'98, BotCon 2000 and The Official Transformers Collectors' Convention 2004 in Rosemont, Illinois.Īn interview with DiCola was included on the Region 1 DVD release of The Transformers: The Movie released by Rhino Entertainment in the year 2000. BotCon 2001 saw the releases of The Protoform Sessions (featuring demos and rarities and including extended commentary from DiCola) and Artistic Transformations: Themes and Variations, containing solo piano renditions of songs from the soundtrack, as well as another complete score on a single disc named Lighting Their Darkest Hour. TransformersĭiCola has had enough of a cult following amongst Transformers fans to have warranted the release of several albums of music related to the Transformers movie, as follow-ups to the release of the original 1986 The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack.įirst released as a BotCon'97 exclusive, the 2-CD set Til All Are One contains the first full score of the movie. The song "The Touch" from the Transformers soundtrack won DiCola a 1986 Apex award for Best Original Song – Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror. He received a Golden Raspberry Award in 1986 for his work on the Rocky IV soundtrack. He also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song – Motion Picture for the song "Far from Over", which he co-wrote with Frank Stallone for the same film. In 1983, DiCola was a co-nominee for the Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy for co-writing the soundtrack of the movie Staying Alive, in spite of the poor critical reception of the film. He also admires film-music composers Thomas Newman, John Powell and Jerry Goldsmith. Since then, he has been active in the capacity of producer, recorded and performed as both a solo artist and member of several bands, and continues to work as a session musician and contributor to film soundtracks as composer and performer.ĭiCola counts Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer among his biggest influences in progressive rock music. Following his work on the Staying Alive project, he was recruited by Sylvester Stallone to write the original score for Rocky IV (1985), followed by scoring The Transformers: The Movie (1986). ![]() His first major break came when he was chosen to co-write several songs on the Staying Alive soundtrack (1983) with Frank Stallone. One of his early credits as a session musician was his synthesizer performance on Juice Newton's albums Dirty Looks and Old Flame released in 19, respectively. After majoring in percussion in college, DiCola began his professional music career upon moving to California in 1981. Vince DiCola was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1957 to Italian-American parents. ![]()
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