After 30 Years Of Waiting, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Soundtrack Will Finally Be Released
By Jack Giroux/June 22, 2016 4:30 pm EST
If you were on Hughes’ fan mailing list in the 1980s, then you might have gotten a single with a couple of the songs. But the rest of us have been out of luck until now. 30 years after Ferris Bueller’s Day Off first hit theaters, its soundtrack is now officially coming out.
Salon has learned Paramount and La-La Land Records have made a deal to release the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off soundtrack. The track list isn’t completely locked down yet, but it’s confirmed La-La Land Records will release the soundtrack later this year, possibly in September. The liner notes will feature interviews with the director’s son, James Hughes, music supervisor Tarquin Gotch, composer Ira Newborn, and editor Paul Hirsch. Journalist Tim Greiving conducted the interviews.
The music used in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off includes Yellow’s “Oh Yeah,” The English Beat’s “March of the Swivel Heads,” Dream Academy’s “The Edge of Forever,” and, unforgettably, The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout.”
Hughes once explained to Lollipop Magazine his reasoning for not wanting to release a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off soundtrack (via Nerdist):
That’s just a lovely (and unsurprising) quote at the end from John Hughes. Soundtracks for the director’s other films, including The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, were quite popular, so it’s easy to imagine at the time some were frustrated with Hughes’ decision, but his thinking behind not putting out a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off soundtrack was reasonable.
