“Berlin: a film for the ear” appears in a lightly defined pentagram (ballooned) on a promotional poster for the album by Lou Reed. Necessary compromise made by RCA after rejecting the working title of Babylon. By 1973, the libfilm audience are beginning to lift out of the three year k-hole invited by The Last Movie, with a sense of liberated filmmusic coming to the fore. The dull critical response to Berlin underlines the impossibility of using LFM as a marketing tool. As a result, mainstream attacks on the medium are frequent and brutal, culminating in the 1977 release of The Beegees’ gross OST for Saturday Night Fever. “How Deep Is Your Love, Your Love, How Deep, Is, Your, Love.” Fuck you, Gibbs.