Morning Report 1987-2002 theme tune
In the late 80s (1987-1998) and early 90s (1994-2004), the Morning Report theme tune adopted a Hollywood affectation that wouldn’t be out of place playing alongside the introductory footage for Paramount Pictures or 20th Century Fox. This classic Hollywood-styled tune articulates Alexander Courage’s Star Trek theme music and John Williams and Danny Elfman’s Star Wars theme music.
This soundtrack was used during that period, most notably the Cold War, the Revolution of 1989, the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Tiananmen Square riots, the collapse of European Colonialism, the Aramoana massacre, the bombing of the World Trade Centre, the Cave Creek bridge collapse, the Raurimu killings and further more. When Mike Hosking joined Morning Report as Geoff Robinson’s co-presenter at the time, both Mike and Geoff would cover the day’s essential news and current affairs every morning and talk about mostly the Cold War in the 1980s.
