

One such artist was Des’ree: the first few notes of her Kissing You can make adult hearts flutter at the thought of Leo and Claire Danes’s eyes meeting through a fish tank. Luhrmann insisted that he heard the lyrics upfront, says Warfield, and tapped up artists personally to write for the film. It’s strange to think of a film set in Verona Beach as reminiscent of London but that’s not the only thing that’s unexpected about the way the soundtrack was made. When I saw the movie, I was like: ‘This is the sound of that summer in London.’” The songs that ended up on the soundtrack were being beta-tested in the living room at 5am. “We were going out to clubs and then back to his for an afterparty. “Nellee’s always been a great cultural curator,” says Justin Warfield, whose band One Inch Punch got on the album after meeting Hooper through friends in London.
