Harold Faltermeyer - Beverly Hills Pop

The very hip music of the Axel Foley (or "Axelf") theme is the perfect accompaniment to the wise-cracking lead role in Beverly Hills Cop, which spawned a couple of sequels. The theme is found on many albums of famous film themes and being easy to "sequence" it also finds itself repeated frequently on albums of synthesiser music. The most recent version is the Crazy Frog dance track released as a single in the UK and remaining in the No.1 spot for 4 weeks. (You can learn more about the history of the Crazy Frog on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.)

German born Faltermeyer's other music rarely strays far from the world of pop and rock. He is also something of a songwriter having co-written the song "Hot Stuff" among others, and has worked with Giorgio Moroder on more than one occasion.

Films by Harold Faltermeyer:

• Beverly Hills Cop - including the excellent and oft-played theme tune
• Running Man
• White Magic
• Fletch - and sequel "Fletch Lives"
• Tango & Cash
• Top Gun - original music, and songs by Giorgio Moroder such as "Take My Breath Away"
• Midnight Express - on this Moroder soundtrack, Faltermeyer has credits for electronics and arranging
• Fatal Beauty
• The Full Monty - "Hot Stuff" is one of the songs in this