Sweeney Todd Soundtrack 01 Opening Title

Here s the first track from the soundtrack of the film Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton (2007). It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler s 1979 musical, the story being based on a legendary serial killer who cuts the throat of his customers and makes meat pies out of their corpses with the help of Mrs Lovett, her partner in crime, who then sells the pies in her shop. The action takes place in the London of the Victorian era. The movie stars Johnny Dep