Bruno Mars Featured on New 'Twilight' Soundtrack

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One

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Bruno Mars will be featured on the soundtrack to Breaking Dawn Part 1, the fourth movie in the Twilight series. The R&B crooner has recorded a new number called "It Will Rain" for the disc, which will hit stores on November 8th. The song will be something of a departure from the usual tone  of the music for the series, which has leaned heavily towards grim balladry and dour indie rock.

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In addition to the Mars tune, the soundtrack will include cuts by Christina Perri, the Joy Formidable, the Belle Brigade, Theophilus London and Mia Maestro, who will also be featured in the film as an actor. The disc will also feature a new recording of Iron and Wine's song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth," which was included in its original form on the soundtrack for the first movie in the series.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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