How ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Score Producer Mixed Hans Zimmer and Lady Gaga
thewrap.comget on Spotify).You’re credited as music producer. What does that mean, exactly?It means wrangling three of the biggest names in the world – Lady Gaga, Harold Faltermeyer and Hans Zimmer.
It means writing. I knew Hans because I’ve worked with him for 15 years. Jerry Bruckheimer I’ve worked with lots of times. And then Tom and McQ [“Top Gun: Maverick” screenwriter and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One director Christopher McQuarrie], we both go back.
That was the connecting tissue. Producing it really means trying to get everybody’s voices together. And we were separated – we were all different parts of the world; COVID was stopping things, even recording the music.
We had to record remotely. Everybody was recording in their sitting rooms. There was no orchestra to record because COVID locked us down.
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