John Barry news archives.
The Best of John Barry: Bond and Beyond
Thursday 16 Nov 2017
7:30pm
Royal Festival Hall,
Address: Belvedere Road,
London, SE1 8XX
Nicholas Dodd conductor
Barry Goldfinger (1964)
Barry Main Theme, Zulu
Barry On her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) We Have All the Time in the World
Barry Somewhere in Time
Barry Moviola
Barry The Persuaders
Barry Mary, Queen of Scots
Barry Midnight Cowboy
Barry Suite, Dances with Wolves
--interval--
Barry Born Free
Barry All Time High, Octopussy (1983)
Barry Theme, Out of Africa (1985)
Barry Body Heat
Barry Chaplin
Barry Space March (Capsule in Space), You Only Live Twice
Barry The Knack
Barry Suite, James Bond
Legendary Hollywood composer John Barry won five Oscars throughout a career creating some of the most memorable music in the history of cinema. Enjoy an evening of his greatest hits – Bond themes from Goldfinger to We Have All the Time in the World, music from Zulu, Midnight Cowboy, Dances with Wolves and more.
A mediados de junio saldrá a la venta el libro John Barry. De James Bond a la eternidad.
La Editorial Rosetta sigue apostando por la música de cine, tras el reciente lanzamiento del libro de José Domingo Romero Mora dedicado a George Duning, el compositor de los estudios Columbia.
Partiendo de un texto del tristemente fallecido Luis Saavedra (1962-2002), Sergio Hardasmal ha ido creando una obra nueva, dedicada a analizar la figura del músico inglés...
http://www.asturscore.com/libro-john-barry-de-james-bond-a-la-eternidad/
Episode of Oh Boy! on 16mm film discovered, to be screened at BFI, London
Chris Perry of Kaleidoscope, the company who specialise in lost TV shows, has recently announced the discovery of an episode of Oh Boy! on 16mm film.
This is important news for Barry fans as it features a performance of "Farrago" by the John Barry Seven, and, as such, is their earliest TV appearance known to exist on film.
It also features the TV debuts of three members who had recently joined the group: Dougie Wright, Dennis King & Vic Flick.
Full details are:
Saturday 15th November 1958
'OH BOY!' SHOW # 10 (compèred by Tony Hall)
RESIDENT WEEKLY BAND & PERFORMERS:
Lord Rockingham's XI, Red Price, Cherry Wainer, The Vernons Girls, The Dallas Boys, Neville Taylor & The Cutters
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL GUESTS:
Cliff Richard & The Drifters
Cuddly Dudley
The John Barry Seven
Pat Lawrence
Peter Elliott
RUNNING ORDER
1. ROSALIE/TV HOP (Cliff Richard & 2 Vernons Girls)
2. FARRAGO (John Barry Seven)
3. MARGARET (Neville Taylor & Cutters)
4. DING DONG (Vernons Girls)
5. BETTY LOU GOT NEW A PAIR OF SHOES (Cuddly Dudley)
6. MR LEE (Pat Lawrence)
7. DRUNKEN SAILOR (Dallas Boys)
8. BLUE CHA-CHA (Cherry Wainer)
9. HIGH CLASS BABY (Cliff Richard & The Drifters)
10.WHO ARE THEY TO SAY (Three Vernons Girls)
11.PROMISE ME LOVE (Peter Elliott)
12.WEEKEND (Red Price Solo)
13.REX ROCKS (Extended Version) (Lord Rockingham's XI)
The show will be screened on Saturday 22nd July 2017, at BFI South Bank, London. Tickets will be on sale 6th June from BFI.
Midnight Cowboy on the big screen. BFI South Bank, London
1st June 2045 NFT1
8th June 2045 NFT1
20th June 2050 NFT3
30th June 1810 NFT3
We were very saddened by the news that Brian Matthew, presenter of BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the 60s & ABC TV’s Thank Your Lucky Stars, died on Saturday, April 8th, 2017.
Brian had only recently finished presenting Sounds of the 60s, after 27 years as host, and was looking forward to making a few programmes for the station in which he would reflect on his life and career in the music business.
Hs broadcasting career began in the early fifties and after a few years on the staff of BBC Radio, he became a freelance journalist and presenter, but still spent of his career working for the BBC. TV viewers got to know him through Thank Your Lucky Stars, which he presented from its second series in 1961 through to 1965, when Jim Dale took over for the final season.
He was associated with the pop world for much of his career, through BBC radio shows such as Saturday Club, Easy Beat & My Top Twelve. The John Barry Seven were regular guests on Saturday Club, and in 1960 were the resident band for a series of Easy Beat, before a Blackpool summer season with Adam faith forced their withdrawal.
Brian also presented the arts programme, Round Midnight, for many years, and in 1990 won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for outstanding contribution to radio.
In the early nineties he interviewed a number of musicians for a series entitled Music Makers UK, including Lionel Bart, Tony Hatch, John Barry, Don Black Mike Batt & Leslie Bricusse. His interview with John Barry was particularly well-received; his gentle, easy-going yet still probing style successfully extracting all the important stories behind the key moments from the usually interview-shy composer’s equally lengthy career in the business.
2008 brought Brian further deserved recognition when he won a Sony Gold Award "to celebrate an impressive record of more than 50 years of national and international radio broadcasting."
He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and fans.
Film4 is showing Mary, Queen Of Scots this week; Thursday 9th March. UK.
James Bond Spectacular
August 18, 2017
Time: 19:30
The Harlington Theatre
236 Fleet Road
Fleet
Hants
GU51 4BY
Back by popular demand, popular Q The Music Show is coming back to The Harlington, Fleet bringing their fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success at other theatres with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies, you can hear the greats like Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, Goldeneye and Licence To Kill amongst all the others. With top musicians, dancers, and an informative and highly amusing compere, this show as everything you could want for a fabulous night out – and one that you will be talking about for years to come.
Formed in 2004, Q The Music Show have established a worldwide reputation for their authentic covers, orchestral sound and fabulous hair-raising vocalists. The show has been popular abroad at events in Monte Carlo, Germany, Italy, Guernsey, Prague and many others.
Don’t miss this superb evening as…Nobody Does It Better!
James Bond Spectacular
August 20, 2017
Time: 19:30
Buxton Opera House,
Water Street
Buxton
Derbyshire SK17 6XN
The popular Q The Music Show brings its James Bond Concert Spectacular to Buxton Opera House. The 13-piece band will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies, you can hear the greats like Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, Goldeneye and Licence To Kill amongst all the others. With top musicians and an informative and highly amusing compere, this show as everything you could want for a fabulous night out – and one that you will be talking about for years to come.
Formed in 2004, Q The Music Show have established a worldwide reputation for their authentic covers, orchestral sound and fabulous hair-raising vocalists. The show has been popular abroad at events in Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Guernsey, Prague and many others.
Volker Rippe kindly drew my attention to a recent correction made to Derek Watkins' Wikipedia profile as concerns his James Bond music career and the corresponding "Talk" to explain or justify the correction.
The Hallé
An Evening with 007
Friday, 30 December, 2016
The Bridgewater Hall,
Lower Mosley Street,
Manchester, M2 3WS
7.30pm
Stephen Bell conductor
Alison Jiear | Matthew Ford vocalists
Including music from Spectre | On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | You Only Live Twice | GoldenEye | From Russia With Love | Live and Let Die | Quantum of Solace | The World is Not Enough | Goldfinger | A View to a Kill | Thunderball | Skyfall | For Your Eyes Only | The Spy Who Loved Me | Moonraker | The Living Daylights | Licence to Kill | Diamonds Are Forever | Casino Royale
Smooth as a vodka martini, elegant as a tuxedo and cool as a cucumber sandwich, Stephen Bell celebrates the ultimate British hero – James Bond. Feel free to take your drink – vodka based or otherwise – into the concert and immerse yourself in the spine-tingling sounds that gave musical voice to the films in catchy title sequences and haunting songs performed here by star vocalists Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford.
James Bond Spectacular
December 1, 2017
Time: 19:30
Camberley Theatre,
Knoll Road,
Camberley,
Surrey, GU15 3SY,
GB
The popular James Bond Concert Spectacular by Q The Music Show is coming to Camberley Theatre. They will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success all around the World with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies...
Saturday 18th March 2017
Time: 21:00-23:00
Colston Hall,
Hall One,
Colston St.,
Bristol BS1 5AR.
'Sounds for Spies & Private Eyes' is a musical movie and TV theme spectacular focusing on the spy, secret agent and cop shows that dominated both big and small screens in the 1960s and 70s.
Celebrating the jazz and funk genius of film score writers such as Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Roy Budd and many others, one can expect to hear perennial classics such as Pink Panther, Mission: Impossible and the James Bond Theme alongside a choice selection of cult classics from, what is truly, a golden era'.
A lot more James Bond concerts collected on the link below, I have put them all in this news item. So check it out from there!
http://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=concertlist
30 Dec 2016
United Kingdom | Manchester | An Evening with 007 |
31 Dec 2016
USA | Kentucky | Lexington | Casino Royale: the Music of James Bond featuring Hilary Kole |
31 Dec 2016
USA | South Dakota | Rapid City | Top Secret! (Music To Spy By) |
31 Dec 2016
USA | Pennsylvania | Lancaster | New Year's Eve! - Bonded |
26 Jan 2017
United Kingdom | Huddersfield | The Music of James Bond |
28 Jan 2017
USA | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg | The Music of James Bond and More |
29 Jan 2017
USA | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg | The Music of James Bond and More |
18 Feb 2017
Canada | Regina | Fifty Years of BondÂ…James Bond |
03 Mar 2017
03 Mar 2017 | USA | Colorado | Colorado Springs | 007: The Music of James Bond |
04 Mar 2017 | USA | Colorado | Colorado Springs | 007: The Music of James Bond |
11 Mar 2017
11 Mar 2017 | Germany | München (Munich) | A Night with James Bond (Jagd auf James Bond) | |
12 Mar 2017 | Germany | München (Munich) | A Night with James Bond (Jagd auf James Bond) |
16 Mar 2017
Germany | Frankfurt am Main | A Night with James Bond (Jagd auf James Bond) |
31 Mar 2017
Germany | Nürnberg | A Night with James Bond (Jagd auf James Bond) |
31 Mar 2017
31 Mar 2017 | USA | Texas | Fort Worth | 007: The Music of James Bond |
01 Apr 2017 | USA | Texas | Fort Worth | 007: The Music of James Bond |
01 Apr 2017
Germany | Stuttgart | A Night with James Bond (Jagd auf James Bond) |
02 Apr 2017
USA | Texas | Fort Worth | 007: The Music of James Bond |
02 Apr 2017
United Kingdom | Leeds |
Shaken & Stirred: The Music of James Bond
02 April 2017
Tickets: £30, £27, £24, £19, £14, £10 (discounts available).
Featuring Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Skyfall.
Leeds Town Hall
Concert begins at 4pm
Orchestra of Opera North
Gareth Hudson - conductor
Mary Carewe - voice
Simon Bowman - voice
The ultimate Bond concert with excerpts from all 24 films from Dr No to Spectre. With classic songs made famous by great artists such as Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Matt Monro, Paul McCartney, Duran Duran, Tina Turner, Adele, Sam Smith and more, this evening is dedicated to the world’s most famous spy.
Led by Gareth Hudson and joined by two of the leading vocal artists of the Bond repertoire, Mary Carewe and Simon Bowman, from the moment the Orchestra of Opera North strike up the iconic James Bond Theme you will realise that Nobody does it better as you’re immersed in an evening of classic Bond music which will leave you shaken AND stirred.
Channel your inner spy or become a Bond-girl for the evening as we encourage bookers to dress to impress.
Norman/Raine - James Bond theme
Barry/Raine - Thunderball
Barry/Raine - Goldfinger
Barry/Raine - You only live twice
Barry/Raine - From Russia With Love: Title Song
Barry/Raine - Moonraker
Barry/Raine - Diamonds Are Forever
David & Bacharach/Raine - Casino Royale
Hamlisch/Raine - The Spy Who Loved Me: Nobody Does It Better
Barry/Raine - The Man With The Golden Gun: Title Song
Barry/Raine - On Her Majesty's Secret Service: We Have All The Time In The World
Barry/Raine - Suite: A View to a Kill
Walden & Cohen/Raine Licence to Kill: Title Song
Interval
Barry/Raine - A View to a Kill
Conti/Raine - For Your Eyes Only
Barry/Raine - Octopussy: All Time High
Barry & Waaktaar/Raine - The Living Daylights: Title Song
Bono & The Edge/Raine - Goldeneye
Arnold & Black/Raine - Tomorrow Never Dies: Surrender
Arnold - Die Another Day: Welcome to Cuba
Arnold & Black/Raine -The World Is Not Enough: Title Song
Cornell & Arnold/Raine Casino Royale: You Know My Name
White/Raine Quantum Of Solace: Another Way To Die
McCartney/Raine - Live And Let Die: Title Song
Atkins & Epworth/Raine - Skyfall
Smith/Raine - Spectre: Writing’s on the Wall
08 Apr 2017
United Kingdom | Belfast | Goldfinger! The Best of James Bond |
08 April 2017
Belfast
(United Kingdom)
Goldfinger! The Best of James Bond
Ulster Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell - Ulster Hall
Program Info:
An explosive evening of the very best themes from the James Bond series. Stephen Bell will be the man with the golden baton, leading the Ulster Orchestra through classics from across the decades, from early films such as Goldfinger, right through to the present day and hits such as the Oscar-winning theme to Skyfall. Favourites such as Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever and Licence to Kill will leave you shaken and stirred at this fabulous concert!
External links:
Details & tickets
11 Apr 2017
United Kingdom | London | The Music of Bond |
13 Apr 2017
13 Apr 2017 | USA | Mississippi | Kansas City | Bond and beyond: 50 years of 007 |
14 Apr 2017 | USA | Mississippi | Kansas City | Bond and beyond: 50 years of 007 |
15 Apr 2017 | USA | Mississippi | Kansas City | Bond and beyond: 50 years of 007 |
30 Jun 2017
United Kingdom | Sheffield | James Bond: The Music of 007 |
19 Nov 2017
Canada | Thunder Bay | Shaken Not Stirred – The Music of James Bond |
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