Before The Sopranos became the best show on TV and made over ten million Americans wake up in the morning and get themselves some HBO, it was a labor of love long in development hell.
We all so equate Tony Soprano’s opening credits drive through the netherlands of New Jersey with Alabama 3’s song about getting himself a gun, that it’s hard to believe that the credits were originally set to different music. During David Chase’s pitch of the pilot to HBO, he tried to go to the rights clearance mat with the folks at Apple Corp. But at the time, The Beatles were still bigger than The Sopranos, and Chase lost out on his first choice. Here’s what might have been…
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