Top 11 Songs From ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

Like ‘The Sopranos,’ the prequel is an audio journey back in time

“I listen to a lot of music all the time… A lot of these things are dredged up from memory. I’ll go, ‘Oh, that was a really good song.’ Or I’ve kept this catalog in my head of so-and-so I’ve always wanted to use. And then a movie situation will come up in which they fit very well.”

– David Chase, writer and producer of The Sopranos

The Many Saints of Newark, directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner, is the prequel to the hit TV series The Sopranos. Set in Newark, New Jersey in the 1960s and ’70s, Michael Gandolfini plays the young Tony Soprano, the part played by his father, the late James Gandolfini, in The Sopranos.

Like the series, the film makes generous use of period music of the day. Screenrant describes the scenes where each song is heard in the film.

11. “Sway” by the Rolling Stones

One of the reasons guitarist Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stones in 1974 after five years was because he felt he did not receive credit for his contributions to songs. Two of his best efforts were “Moonlight Mile” and “Sway” from the 1971 LP Sticky Fingers. “Let’s put it this way — without my contribution those songs…