Even the BBC couldn’t resist the great American film’s rolling travelogue that encompasses acoustic folk and rock, hard rock and heavy blues, psychedelic and acid rock, as well as counterculture satire and novelty music, as BBC Music Magazine just ranked Easy Rider rock's greatest soundtrack of all time.
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The Easy Rider soundtrack revolutionized Hollywood, forgoing the prototypical orchestral original score in favor of a playlist of contemporary rock, serving as another member of the cast and setting a tone of rebellion and liberation.
Key standout tracks include Steppenwolf’s iconic “Born to Be Wild,” The Byrds’ “Wasn’t Born to Follow,” Jimi Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9,” and Roger McGuinn’s “Ballad of Easy Rider.” View, listen to, and download the soundtrack in full at Apple Music.
Directed by co-star Dennis Hopper, the film was released in July 1969, famously premiering months earlier at the Cannes International Film Festival, where the late Hopper won the award for Best New Director. Made on a shoestring budget, it was a massive box office success, raking in around$60 million worldwide.
Released by ABC-Dunhill Records in August 1969, the soundtrack peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and was officially certified gold by January 1970. Its use of ready-made music inspired films including American Graffiti (1973), Mean Streets (1973), and Apocalypse Now (1979), per Ultimate Classic Rock.
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