I made the soundtrack and the ending as a tribute to Lee. The soundtrack is not the one used on the show and it's not official.


Gabriel Fauré - In Paradisum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lacrimosa
Alexander Porfiryevitch Borodin - Chorus Of Slave Girls
Jean-Philippe Rameau - Tristes Apprets
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus
Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Georg Friedrich Händel - Zadok, the Priest. Coronation Anthem No. 1


The first song, "In Paradisum", is a Requiem used in Catholic Masses when someone dies. It has been said that Fauré wrote the song because his father died and, two years later, his mother died too. I wanted to use it as the first song, the "opening" one, for obvious reasons. Fauré even said that people would criticize his Requiem for not expressing all the pain and sadness that death causes, but that it was the idea behind the song, a song that portrayed death as a happy and delivering experience because, for the dead person, being actually dead is aspiring to happiness, whether it's because you will see God, or your lost loved ones, etc. In one part the lyrics say "deliver the souls of the departed".

And the last song, the Coronation Anthem of Zadok, the Priest, is a song Handel composed taking inspiration from the Bible but that has been used in british coronations since a long time ago. To me, McQueen was always the king, but his death only made a legend out of him. In some twisted way it was his coronation. The permanent prove that he was the one and that there is never going to be another Lee. God save the King, as the anthem goes.

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