Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack orchestra from twenty-seven musicians to seventy-eight. The "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Deluxe Complete Edition" soundtrack was released on December 18, 2007. Johnny Depp's singing was described by a "New York Times" reviewer as "harsh and thin, but amazingly forceful". Another critic adds that, though Depp's voice "does not have much heft or power", "his ear is obviously excellent, because his pitch is dead-on accurate... Beyond his good pitch and phrasing, the expressive colorings of his singing are crucial to the portrayal. Beneath this Sweeney's vacant, sullen exterior is a man consumed with a murderous rage that
Sweeney Todd (band) album was unsuccessful, and Adams left the band after less than a year. The band attempted to carry on with Chris Booth on vocals (and Grant Gislason replacing Prest in 1978), but broke up before recording any further albums. The band re-united in 2000 and began working on "The Sweeney Todd LP". The band followed up the completion of the record with a cross-Canada tour. In 2007, Sweeney Todd - along with ex-vocalist Nick Gilder - headlined the Golden Spike Days Festival in Port Moody, British Columbia. In 2008, they performed (again with Gilder) at the Merritt Mountain Musicfest in