Bullet Boy
Song Info On Bullet Boy
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25th April 2005
04:08
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Written by Robert Del Naja and Neil Davidge
Produced by Robert Del Naja and Neil Davidge
Keyboards by Neil Davidge and Robert Del Naja
Guitar by Neil Davidge
Recorded and mixed by Lee Shephard
For the Collected version of the song, additional credits are:
Remastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange and Tim Young at Metropolis Mastering.
Massive Attack's very own Teardrop is used to provide Bullet Boy's bassline and beatline. This is the most obvious example of Massive Attack sampling from themselves.
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Robert Del Naja
Backing Vocals: Neil Davidge
The song Bullet Boy was composed as part of the film-length soundtrack Massive Attack was commissioned by the film's director Saul Dibb to do for a indie British film from whence the song got its name, Bullet Boy. The song itself as well as the entire score were done over a three week period in the Summer of 2004.
This is the first Massive Atack song to feature Neil Davidge on vocals, albeit as a backing vocalist. He would not reappear as a backing vocalist until 2007, on the U.N.K.L.E/Massive Attack collaboration Twilight.
The working name for the song originally was "Bullet In The Wrong Place".
Before its eventual release it was hoped Bullet Boy would be released as a physical single release in aid of gun victims charities, but instead for whatever reason was only made available on Itunes as a digital download single.
As with all the songs on the Bullet Boy soundtrack, the song Bullet Boy has never once been played live.
Saul Dibb on Massive Attack's involvement on the film Bulley Boy - " I felt the film needed music that would contrast with the source material (hip hop, reggae, soul etc) but also feel contemporary and fresh without imposing itself too heavily on the film. We all believed they would be able to do this" [Bullet Boy PR - January 2005]
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