U2's Bono said he loved one song from a classic David Lynch movie because it broke all the rules of popular music.

From Twin Peaks to his films to his own recording career, the director understood how much sound mattered — not only to the ...

He has a point about tonal whiplash: The film opens with Bobby Vinton’s schmaltzy recording of the song “Blue Velvet” played over slow-motion scenes of quaint Americana before the camera ...

Taking its title from the classic Bobby Vinton song, Blue Velvet used one of Lynch’s favorite narrative tropes — the detective story — to follow a naive young man (Kyle MacLachlan ...

The camera pans down on a white-picket fence, as Bobby Vinton croons his 1963 version ... “I didn’t like the song ‘Blue Velvet,'” Lynch said in his 2018 hybrid biography/memoir Room ...

The movie was panned by critics when it opened in 1984 and seemed likely to bring a sudden end to Lynch’s meteoric rise, only for him to be redeemed by his fourth feature, Blue Velvet. Taking its ...

David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of films and shows including "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at the age of 78, his family announced Thursday. "It is with deep regret that we ...