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Elegia (song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Elegia
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| type = Instrumental
| artist = New Order
| album = Low-Life
| released = 13 May 1985
| recorded = 1984, Jam and Britannia Row Studios, London
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| length = 4:56 (album version)
17:29 (full version)
| label = Factory
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| producer = New Order
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"'Elegia'" is an instrumental musical piece composed by Peter Hook, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner for the British rock band New Order. It is an instrumental in A minor with a time signature of 12/8 and uses samples from E-mu Emulator II. It was recorded at CTS Studios, Wembley in a single, 24 hour session. It can be found on their third studio album, 'Low-Life' (1985). Elegia is Greek for elegy.
17-minute version
In 1993, drummer Stephen Morris stated in an interview with 'Select' magazine that the album version of "Elegia" was a five-minute edit of a 17-and-a-half-minute recording. As the internet became widely available, a poor-quality mp3, allegedly of this recording, surfaced in the mid-90s. However, it was not until the release of the compilation boxset 'Retro' in 2002 that the full recording officially saw the light of day. The song was used as the conclusion to the bonus fifth disc included with early releases of the set. The mp3 that had found its way onto the internet did appear to be the same as the song later released. This version was also released on the 2008 Collector's Edition of 'Low-Life'.
Use in media
The album version of the song was featured in the Academy Award-nominated short film 'More' by Mark Osborne, the film 'Pretty in Pink', the trailer for the 1992 film 'Night of the Living Dead', and the 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' episode "Compulsion". It was also used in an 'American Masters' documentary about writer Truman Capote, in the fifth episode of the first season of the Netflix series 'Stranger Things', by comedian Sam Hyde for the trailer to his web series "Kickstarter TV", as well as in "Rust" a black-and-white music video by Nenko Genov, for the E3 2015 trailer of the video game 'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain'. The song is also used in the first episode of the show "Deadly Class (TV series)". In 2020 the song appeared in season 4 of Netflix's 'The Crown' in the episode titled "The Heredity Principle".
References
Category:New Order (band) songs
Category:1985 songs
Category:Songs written by Bernard Sumner
Category:Songs written by Peter Hook
Category:Songs written by Stephen Morris (musician)
Category:Songs written by Gillian Gilbert
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