SHEILA NICHOLLS: 'Fallen For You' (1999, from the soundtrack of the film, 'High Fidelity')
I was sitting in a cosy local pub a little while ago and a couple of songs by Sheila Nicholls turned up in the music they were playing. I waited for this, but, in the words of the song, 'it never came'. It's a lovely contemplative ballad with a certain wistfulness and poignancy about it which I have always liked. It was included in the soundtrack of the 2000 film 'High Fidelity' which was, in turn, an adaptation of the eponymous 1995 novel by the British novelist Nick Hornby.
During the adaptation for screen, there were changes, most notably in the action being moved from London to Chicago. The novel was quite an observant effort on Hornby's part, pulling apart psychology (notably male, especially to do with relationships, music and the snobberies that surround it). There were many fine things on the soundtrack of 'High Fidelity', but for some reason this is its defining song for me.
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During the adaptation for screen, there were changes, most notably in the action being moved from London to Chicago. The novel was quite an observant effort on Hornby's part, pulling apart psychology (notably male, especially to do with relationships, music and the snobberies that surround it). There were many fine things on the soundtrack of 'High Fidelity', but for some reason this is its defining song for me.
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61-69, M
