Morricone, Ennio. Prolific Italian composer of music for films, most notably his old schoolmate Sergio Leone’s famous spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Though Morricone continues to churn out scores for both Hollywood and European movies, it’s his atmospheric 1960s work that has made him the patron saint of such upscale-Snob mood-musicians as Goldfrapp (whose icy-cool chanteuse, Allison Goldfrapp, thanked “Ennio” in her first album’s sleeve notes).
