The month of #Johnuary continues with the John Barry soundtrack for Moonraker. Hmm, I have to be honest I’m not a huge fan of the movie and also not a huge fan of the song either. It’s just a bit nothingy. It’s slow to start,…
The next John Barry soundtrack we’re going to talk about in #Johnuary is The Man With the Golden Gun. Now we’re talking. This is a personal favourite of mine. And not just because Lulu’s Scottish. This is a song I sometimes listen to when I…
Next up in John Barry week in #Johnuary is Diamonds are Forever. Not my favourite Bond film by quite a long way, but let’s look at the theme tune. There’s only a bit of brass in this one and a fair amount of strings but…
Next up for the John Barry week in #Johnuary is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the Bond film that starred George Lazenby in his only time in the role. This was the first film since From Russia With Love that didn’t use the film’s title…
Next up in our John Barry week in #Johnuary is You Only Live Twice, the 5th Bond film in the series. You Only Live Twice is an example of one of John Barry’s songs that is heavier on the strings than the brass. The intro…
#Johnuary continues with John Barry’s Thunderball soundtrack. The story behind the title song is quite interesting. Originally the title song was going to be Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and it was sung by Shirley Bassey. You can hear her version below. But there were…
Our review of John Barry’s work, as part of #Johnuary, continues with our look at the Goldfinger soundtrack. Goldfinger was the first Bond film where Barry was given free rein on everything: the full score and also the theme song. Check out the first version…
The John Barry week in #Johnuary continues with the next Bond film, From Russia With Love. From Russia With Love is a funny one because Barry didn’t actually write the theme tune. That was composed by Lionel Bart and sung by Matt Monro. Here it…
What better way to kick of John Barry week within the month #Johnuary than with a breakdown of the famous James Bond Theme. This is such a classic theme tune. And I never fully realised the history and debate around it, until now. I always…
After having a week of John Carpenter’s work, in the month of #Johnuary, we now move on to honouring the work of another John. This time the composer John Barry. I put John Barry on my list of Johns because I always used to get…