Alan Menken On Tangled | Empire Magazine

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Tangled, which comes out this Friday, is the 50th Disney animated feature and, happily, one of its best in years. An action-packed twist on the Rapunzel story, this mixes gorgeous animation, catchy tunes and a horse who thinks he's a hound dog to completely winning effect. We travelled to Disneyland Paris (it's a hard life) recently to interview directors Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, producer Roy Conli, legendary animator Glen Keane and ace composer Alan Menken to get the full story on the creation of a different sort of Disney princess. This one, we promise, is more Princess Bride than you'd expect... www.empireonlin...
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[@agoroyagoroy517]

his actually my fav composer.. I love all his music from specially the little Mermaid

[@angelofmusic997]

I love how he continually refers to Little Shop of Horrors in all (or most) of his interviews(that I've seen, anyhow.) Love that musical. Brings back great memories! :D

[@EllaAmberella]

When Alan's involved, those movie songs turned out to be my favorite songs... So that's why

[@pinkdisney4ever]

I love every single song he has composed ! Love him so much

[@atlantis2339]

if i was only limited to music written by alan menken and howard ashman, i think i'd be totally set for life!

[@stavxx]

he worked on pretty much all my favourite disney movies i basically owe him my life

[@ChanelsChannel]

I really wanted him to play something in this video! Such a great composer though :)

[@ArmandtheWise]

now its no longer a mystery to me. i see why i loved the music for tangled so much, the genious behind the music for my other favorites, beauty and the beast and aladdin, is responsible for the great soundtrack in tangled too. this man knows his music.

[@xSamDGK]

i love how all his interviews are in front of a piano :D

[@cuca1107]

Alan Menken! I had no idea he composed the music in Tangled

[@kenyacastellanos237]

He should compose ALL of the musical Disney films, just saying.

[@jordanbriskin238]

Yeah, I so agree with you. In fact, I've been having a dream in which I actually worked with him on "Little Mermaid", "Pocahontas", and "Aladdin" (as well as all of the other Disney films that he has composed), and we even contribute music to "Lion King", "Mulan", "Tarzan", and "The Princess and the Frog", which he didn't work on, historically.

[@oklu_]

"I never left Disney" XD

[@caroharader4895]

Just listening to the way that Alan Menken talks about his work and how it comes to be shows you what a master he is of what he does.

[@ClevverTv24]

this guy is my hero :)

[@robbymulvany2109]

Great music...still at the top of his game.

[@nickgalton7678]

What a great composer of Disney movies. That too when he made Tangled it was overwhelming. My sorrows vanishes while Listening to his music.

[@xxladybug94]

it ain't weird that u won all those oscars u deserve them! you're a musical genius :D

[@oklu_]

4:10 "That's my Glen"

[@reptongeek]

Just a thought on Alan tying with Edith Head for Oscars won. Everybody forgets Dennis Muren, he also has eight oscars. Two of them were Special Achievement Awards (which is presumably why the count gets a bit screwy), but they are Oscar statuettes
I'm a great Alan Menken fan and have nearly all his Disney soundtracks

[@kryptonianpowers]

Alan Menken MUST collaborate with Richard Sherman at Disney.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

I wonder if the notes on the wall paper are Treble cleft or Bass cleft.

[@liquidkraken]

"my Glenn!" :')

[@shopgirl77]

love him

[@nikubitsa]

true story! I think so too!!

[@34RiverStone]

GENIOUS

[@Mer.Saloon]

I wish Alan worked with Tim Rice again; Glenn Slater's lyrics would have been worth bunk without Alan's music. At least, with Tim Rice, you had a channel of Howard there.

[@ConcreteArchitect]

@pierrels007 thank you for telling us. I was wondering what it was haha

[@JStwins40882]

Why is he in England

[@Tozzywozzy01]

@rachel869 lol it's just not the same as the collab he had with the late Howard Ashman. :'(

[@claudefrollo7172]

what the hell?? Alan .. is that you??

[@rawritsjazzy]

GOD. just saying.

[@rachel869]

Of course Glenn Slater doesn't get the credit he deserves; he's a horrible lyricist! Gah.
Love Menken though.

[@edwardwatkins6572]

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