Chase, Love’s Theme, Istanbul Blues: Αποσπάσματα από το all-time classic soundtrack του Moroder για την ταινία του Alan Parker σε σενάριο Oliver Stone. Βασισμένη σε πραγματική ιστορία, αποτελούσε μια γλαφυρή, δεόντως ζοφερή εικόνα του δικαστικού / σωφρονιστικού συστήματος της “φίλης και γείτονος”.
Η ταινία είχε προκαλέσει οργίλες αντιδράσεις των Τούρκων για …στερεοτυπική και δυσφημιστική παρουσίαση του “πολιτισμού” τους.

Chase, Love’s Theme, Istanbul Blues: Excerpts from Moroder’s all-time classic soundtrack for Alan Parker’s film, screenplay by Oliver Stone. Based on a true story, it provided a vivid, appropriately grim depiction of “friend and neighbor”’s judicial / prisons system.
The film provoked furious reactions from the Turks for its …stereotypical and defamatory portrayal of their “culture.”

I got the blues, babe
Got those old Istanbul blues
Said yeah, I got the blues, babe
Got those old Istanbul blues
Thirty years in Turkey, babe
Ain’t got nothing left to lose
Well, I was busted at the bottom
With two keys in my shoes, yeah
Said I was busted at the bottom, babe
With two keys in my shoes, yeah
And they gave me thirty years, babe
To learn the Istanbul blues
I said, Lord, now save me
Please, save me from this pain
I said, Lord, now save me
Come and save me from this pain, yeah
Well, come set me free, sweet Jesus
Come on, save me from this pain, ooh-yeah
I got the blues
Got those old Istanbul blues, yeah
I said yeah, I got the blues
Got those old Istanbul blues
They gave me thirty years in Turkey, babe
Ain’t got nothing left to lose