Giorgio Moroder And Others Talk Donna Summer & Giorgio’s 10 Big Music Moments: Interview

3. “Chase” by Giorgio Moroder (1978) In 1978, “Last Dance” wasn’t the only Academy Award-winning piece of music Giorgio Moroder had a hand in; his soundtrack for the Turkish prison drama Midnight Express would go on to win the Oscar for Best Original Score. One particular highlight is “Chase,” an electronic instrumental that crossed over to both dancefloors and radio. (To this day, “Chase” stands out as the sole Top 40 hit credited to Moroder’s own name.)

Hollywood clearly had Giorgio fever, as more and more soundtrack work came flooding in for the the Italian producer throughout the 1980s: Foxes, American Gigolo, Cat People, Flashdance, Scarface, The NeverEnding Story and Top Gun were some of the bigger films Moroder wrote compositions for. As the decade ended, musical styles changed and Giorgio’s mind turned elsewhere.

“I wanted to do some other things in life,” he says. “So I went into computer art, built a 16-cylinder car called Cizeta Moroder and worked on a lot of other projects.”