The composer Angelo Badalamenti, who has died aged 85, first worked with the director David Lynch on the 1986 neo-noir movie Blue Velvet and scored many more of his projects, including the 1990s TV series Twin Peaks, the film Mulholland Drive in 2001 and Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017. Their relationship, which Badalamenti called “my second-best marriage,” was a perfect synthesis of sound and vision.
Badalamenti was a storyteller, in music and in life. In a clip from the 2007 documentary Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks, he sits at the piano explaining – or rather recreating – how he wrote Laura Palmer’s Theme for Lynch’s Twin Peaks.
