Angelo Badalamenti, an internationally sought-after composer who wrote the hypnotic theme to "Twin Peaks,” David Lynch’s 1990s television drama series, and the music for five Lynch films, including "Blue Velvet” (1986), died Sunday at his home in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. He was 85.
His niece Frances Badalamenti confirmed the death. She said she did not know the cause.
Angelo Badalamenti was at the piano behind Isabella Rossellini when she sang "Blue Velvet” at the Slow Club in Lumberton, North Carolina, a flower-filled, picket-fence kind of town with a very dark side. Aside from the title song, a Bobby Vinton hit from 1963, he had composed much of the film’s music.
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