Q Lazzarus album and documentary expected to be released in 2025

The mysterious and reclusive Q Lazzarus will cement her legacy with an album and documentary to be released next year.

Diane Luckey’s musical moniker Q Lazzarus came to prominence in 1991 when her song “Goodbye Horses” was featured prominently on a track by Jonathan Demme. silence of the lambs.

Demme originally discovered Luckey (then a taxi driver) in the mid-1980s when she took him for a ride and played him her demo tape. Demme was so fascinated by Luckey’s enigmatic dance-pop sound as the frontman of Q Lazzarus that he made her a regular character in his films for much of the next decade. He included her song “The Candle Goes Away” on his 1986 album wild stuffand then featured “Bye Bye Horses” in two of his films: 1988’s marry a thug and 1991 silence of the lambs.

Following the disbandment of Q Lazzarus and the Resurrection, Luckey retreated from the public eye and her whereabouts became the subject of an extensive search in 2017. in progress.

“At the time of her death, Diane was completing work on a feature documentary about her life and music with filmmaker and friend Eva Arrigis,” the obituary read. “The film will be released in 2023 Released with an album of songs spanning her entire musical career.”

Now, following screenings in New York and Los Angeles this week, Arrijis’ film has been revealed – Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus – Streaming service to be launched in early 2025.

“The intimate journey of singer Diane Luckey, aka Q Lazzarus, through her life, told through her own words, lyrics, and music,” reads the film’s description. “The talented and vastly underrated Q, Performing the hit song “Bye Bye Horses,” the story reveals the reasons behind her mysterious disappearance of 25 years and paves the way for her resurgence in a story that is heartbreaking, hilarious and moving.”

In addition to this news, Sacred Bones Records also announced the release of a 21-song compilation of unreleased music. The songs, all recorded between 1985 and 1995, will also be released as a 10-track vinyl version. The compilation features the original single compilation of “Goodbye Horses” as well as a “New Wave” version of the song, as well as a cover of Talking Heads’ “Heaven” (which was performed in Demme’s 1993 film, Philadelphia.

Pre-order Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Film Music) Already live ahead of launch on February 21st.