Knight Rider | Theme Cover

You can really tell how old I am by my content, LOL. The Knight Rider theme, composed by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson, is more than an iconic 1980s synth riff. Larson said he remembered a theme from Léo Delibes’ "Marche et cortège de Bacchus" from Act III of the ballet Sylvia, and used pieces of it as the basis for the Knight Rider lead music. What makes the Knight Rider theme endure is how cleanly it translates Delibes’ classical propulsion into modern television language. The network pushed for synthesizers, and Larson has described building the track with multiple synths, drums, and bass, but the underlying hook is doing the real work. The result is a theme that feels futuristic while secretly being built on a 19th century backbone. #knightrider #music #themesong #coversong #cover #soundtrack #tvshow #tv