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
Towering Inferno (band) said that Towering Inferno was "one of the most original and provocative performance-art bands of the 1990s", and described "Kaddish" as "a shocking and unforgettable piece". Wolfson died in February 2005, but Saunders, with Chris Cutler, Jah Wobble, Bob Drake, Dave Kerman, Glyn Perrin, Greg Skerman and others, began working on a second Towering Inferno album that had been started before Wolfson's death. Towering Inferno (band) Towering Inferno was an English experimental music duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, notable for their sole album "Kaddish", which reflected on The Holocaust. "Kaddish" was released on their own TI Records in