Ronson: Those songs were a time when masculine hetero music got to its most sensitive. Wyatt: That era of the late ’70s was about we’re so cool. We can do anything, and that matches his headspace.

For the closing song of The Last Showgirl, Andrew Wyatt and Lykke Li wrote “Beautiful This Way” with Miley Cyrus. In the Roadside Attractions film, Pamela Anderson plays a veteran showgirl confronted ...