The soundtrack to the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral directed by Mike Newell, features 13 licensed songs as heard in the film performed by artists such as Elton John, Gloria Gaynor, Lena Fiagbe, Barry White, along with bands such as Wet Wet Wet, Swing Out Sister, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Squeeze, One to One and Sting amongst others. It also featured a score suite composed by British composer Richard Rodney Bennett. The album achieved significant chart-topping success in the United Kingdom.
Reception
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote "the film itself ends on a more up note, and you can always program your CD player to play only the wedding material." Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK wrote "Four Weddings and a Funeral is probably a soundtrack that will appeal mostly to people like me, who are fans of the film and/or are devotees of 1980s and 90s British pop music, but it does comes a gentle but important reminder that Richard Rodney Bennett’s career did extend deeply into the 1990s, and that he was still writing music of great tenderness, emotional depth, and poignancy long after his ‘mainstream’ Hollywood career ended."