Joel Sill Dies: Veteran Music Supervisor For ‘Easy Rider’, ‘Flashdance’ & ‘Forrest Gump’ Was 78

Joel Sill Dies: Veteran Music Supervisor For ‘Easy Rider’, ‘Flashdance’ & ‘Forrest Gump’ Was 78

Joel Sill, a music supervisor for more than 150 movies, including such cinema classics as Easy Rider, Flashdance, Forrest Gump and An Officer and a Gentleman, passed away Aug. 23 at his home in Thousand Oaks after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 78. Born in Santa Monica in 1946 to a musical family, Sill spent time as a teenager observing a young Phil Spector, who had been signed as a songwriter by Sill’s father, Lester Sill, as h…