Editing Taxi Driver (section)

==Music==
{{Infobox album
| name         = Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording
| type         = soundtrack
| artist       = [[Bernard Herrmann]]
| released     = May 19, 1998
| recorded     = December 22 and 23, 1975<ref>{{cite web |last=Ruhlmann |first=William |title=Bernard Hermann |url=http://www.thebeat.com/Music/Artist.aspx?id=86296 |work=[[CFBT-FM]] |access-date=March 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317032141/http://www.thebeat.com/Music/Artist.aspx?id=86296 |archive-date=March 17, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| genre        = [[Soundtrack]]
| length       = 61:33
| label        = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| producer     = [[Michael Phillips (producer)|Michael Phillips]], Neely Plumb
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{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Taxi Driver [Original Soundtrack] |website=[[AllMusic]] |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/taxi-driver-original-soundtrack-mw0000194003|access-date=October 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116181929/http://www.allmusic.com/album/taxi-driver-original-soundtrack-mw0000194003|archive-date=November 16, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
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[[Bernard Herrmann]] previously scored De Palma's ''[[Obsession (1976 film)|Obsession]]'', and De Palma introduced Herrmann to Scorsese.{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=57}} The music by Herrmann was his final score before his death on December 24, 1975, several hours after Herrmann completed the recording for the soundtrack, and the film is dedicated to his memory. Scorsese, a longtime admirer of Herrmann, had particularly wanted him to compose the score; Herrmann was his "first and only choice". Scorsese considered Herrmann's score of great importance to the success of the film: "It supplied the psychological basis throughout."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Steven C. |title=A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann |date=1991 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-520-22939-8 |pages=350–352 |edition=2002 reprint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1mUcGRpt0EC&pg=PA352 |access-date=11 February 2022 |archive-date=March 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331162706/https://books.google.com/books?id=-1mUcGRpt0EC&pg=PA352#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The album ''[[The Silver Tongued Devil and I]]'' from [[Kris Kristofferson]] was used in the film, following ''[[Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]'' (1974), in which Kristofferson played a supporting role.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/week-27-kris-kristofferson-silver-tongued-devil-1798219060|title=Week 27: Kris Kristofferson, Silver-Tongued Devil|date=February 9, 2010|first=Nathan|last=Rabin|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|access-date=April 27, 2021|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427184619/https://music.avclub.com/week-27-kris-kristofferson-silver-tongued-devil-1798219060|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jackson Browne]]'s "[[Late for the Sky (song)|Late for the Sky]]" is also featured.