The Toto rating for Dune was Wagnerian and highly effective, but the band by no means composed the soundtrack for an additional film.

Paich: Engaged on that movie discouraged me somewhat bit from engaged on movies. I assumed, If that is the way in which it’s going to be… I wished it to be a blockbuster like Jaws, and it wasn’t. It was met with combined opinions.

Lukather: It was a one-and-done for us, so far as I used to be involved. It was an important expertise, nevertheless it was not one thing I wished to do for a dwelling. There are guys that do it so nicely. I simply wish to keep in my lane, if you’ll. I’m not the suitable man to spend the remainder of my life doing that. It’s very troublesome, tedious work, and I simply wish to run on stage and play my ass off and receives a commission and go dwelling. I spent a whole lot of time in recording studios from 1976 to 1992, doing 20 periods per week… and having a band. 

I noticed Dune 1,000,000 instances after we have been doing it. I might transfer my lips to the dialogue. Oftentimes, among the phrases from the movie we nonetheless use to speak to one another—it simply comes out of nowhere. That’s a part of our historical past.

Launched in 1984 by Polydor, the Dune soundtrack album was, in response to the band, not a bestseller. The label reissued the soundtrack on CD in 1997 with beforehand unreleased cues. In 2020, Jackpot Information reissued it in a restricted 2,000-copy “spice-colored” vinyl run.

Lukather: The soundtrack wasn’t a blockbuster, I can let you know that. It’s not like there was a success single. It’s a unusual little bizarre factor.

Paich: It’s an oddity for Toto. The one man that got here as much as me was Billy Idol, who informed me, “By the way in which, I like the Dune album. That’s my favourite Toto document of all time.” Made me really feel actually good.

Lukather: Billy Idol was a buddy of mine and mentioned, “My favourite Toto album is Dune.” [laughs] I mentioned, “I like you for that, Billy!” For our final dwell video, on our Fortieth-anniversary tour, we put collectively a medley of the themes of Dune, in a Pink Floyd-y kind of manner. Our super-fans get it, like, “I can’t imagine they’re enjoying one thing from Dune!” We didn’t play the principle theme; that may have been too apparent and type of foolish. We aren’t John Williams, however we gave it a go! The irony is the singer in our band now, Joseph Williams, his father is John Williams.