1970s in film was far less successful. "The Towering Inferno" teamed Steve McQueen and Paul Newman against a fire in a San Francisco skyscraper. The film cost a whopping $14 million to produce (expensive for its time), and won Academy Awards for Cinematography, Film Editing, and Best Original Song. The same year, the epic "Earthquake" featured questionable effects (camera shake and models) to achieve a destructive 9.9 earthquake in Los Angeles. Despite this, the film was one of the most successful of its time, earning $80 million at box office. By the late 1970s, the novelty had worn off and the disasters had
Kaddish (Towering Inferno album) underground event." Wolfson died in February 2005 at the age of 49 after work had begun on a second Towering Inferno album entitled "The Other Side". Wolfson's tombstone is engraved with a line from "Kaddish" by Szkárosi: "This sky will cover you when you fall down". "Mojo" magazine said "Kaddish" deploys a wide range of musical genres, and including minimalist ambient, metal, classical piano, string quartets and jazz, and called it "a sonic tapestry of thousands of years, lamenting what is lost in periods of great destruction." Brian Eno said "Kaddish" drew on a mix of influences "existing on the