Hollywood filmmaker has reportedly been given a song-writing credit on hitmaker Paolo Nutini’s new album.
The Pulp Fiction director made the rare move of clearing the Scottish singer’s request to sample a passage from one of his films – his 1993 romantic crime classic True Romance – on his album’s opening track, Afterneath.
is said to have contacted Quentin to ask if he could use the sample from the film, which starred Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.
Getting the green light was a coup for the singer as the Reservoir Dogs director does not usually agree to such requests.
Paolo’s upcoming album, Last Night in the Bittersweet, his first since 2014’s Caustic Love, is released in July.
‘Paolo is a big film fan and the section used in the song really resonated with him,’ a source told .
‘Quentin never usually signs off on stuff like this but Paolo sent him the track and it turned out that he loved it and he gave the go-ahead.
‘Paolo likes to make all of his music himself, but to have Tarantino’s name credited on your track is pretty cool.’
Paolo, whose critically-acclaimed 2014 track Iron Sky featured Charlie Chaplin’s iconic speech from 1940’s The Great Dictator, is in good company when it comes to merging music with Tarantino’s content.
Nancy Sinatra recently revealed she credits the fimmaker giving her a ‘new start’ by using one of her songs in his movie Kill Bill, Volume 1.
The 81-year-old singer’s verson of Cher’s 1966 track Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) was used in a famous scene in the 2003 film.
She said: ‘That was a gift, wasn’t it? Quentin, I guess, had wanted to use Bang Bang for a while and he finally found a way to do it.
‘Why my version, I’m not sure. I guess it was the guitar, the lonely sound of Billy Strange’s guitar.’
‘It caused a resurgence for me,’ she added. ‘People were stunned when they saw my name on the screen, they didn’t know it was my recording. But Quentin really gave me a new start.’
However, when asked what she thought of the famously violent film, which starred Uma Thurman, she admitted: ‘The film was … interesting! Not my cuppa, but it was interesting.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted reps for Paolo Nutini for comment.
