How Bob Dylan Said 'No' To Rambo

Thanks largely to the hugely popular French electro duo Daft Punk, Italian electro pioneer and disco hero Giorgio Moroder has been given a fairly substantial boost back into the public spotlight in 2013. His contribution to their Random Access Memories LP – a monologue on the track Giorgio by Moroder – has seen him back in the minds and on the record players of many electro lovers around the world.

Given the artist's considerable history in the realms of popular music, it's not surprising that he has a few tales to tell. In an interview with The Guardian's Alexis Petridis this weekend, he revealed a particularly interesting tidbit about a potential collaboration with Bob Dylan.

The thought of the legendary folkie Dylan and this wacky Italian electronic musician working together is strange enough. But it gets even stranger when it is revealed that it was Sylvester Stallone that brought them together in the hope of a collaboration for the soundtrack to Rambo.

“It was actually Sylvester Stallone who asked me to ask him to sing a song for a Rambo movie,” he begins. “So I composed a song. I wanted him to write the lyrics, of course. I went to see him in Malibu, where he had a beautiful house. He listened to it about four times.

“I'm not sure if he didn't like the music that much, or if he wasn't interested because of the nature of the movie, which was totally anti-Russian, anti-communist. I think he didn't feel like being involved with a movie such as Rambo. It was nice to meet him, and it could have worked, but it didn't work out.”

Wow.