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The Omnibus documentary "John Barry-Licence to Thrill" will be repeated on BBC 4, 8.10pm and 11.30pm on December 14.

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Hello,

At Classic FM we're huge fans of film music, John Barry and in particular the sound and style of the iconic James Bond soundtracks. Great film music paints a scene and creates suspense in an unique and stylish way – and when it comes to Bond composers, especially John Barry, well, nobody does it better.

We've got a couple great, exclusive pieces about James Bond music…

On Friday we interviewed Skyfall Soundtrack composer Thomas Newman and Bond music great David Arnold. You can listen again to the interview here: http://www.classicfm.com/ composers/newman/news/ james-bond-celebration-music-00 7/

We've also created this stunning infographic showing 50 years of music for 007: http://promo.classicfm.co.uk/ misc/infographics/bond/ embed.html

We'd be delighted if you would share these with your fans and followers. 

Best regards,
Kyle Macdonald
Community Manager

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"Brighton Rock" 2004 newpaper (pre)reviews added - doesn't time fly...

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Best and worst James Bond themes named in new chart
"A new chart has listed all of the signature songs from each of the 22 films in order of popularity, based on the numbers of plays they have had on television, radio and the internet... ... in the fifteen years covered by the data."
The Telegraph.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Celebrates Bond
Moderated byJon Burlingame, author of The Music of James Bond

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Happy James Bond 50th anniversary to EON Productions! 

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Mark Morton's round-table interview involving a host of today's film, television, and video game composers. Throughout the piece, the panel have nothing but amazing things to say about John Barry and his work.

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King Kong: deluxe edition, Composed by John Barry, $24.95 (2 CD), Ships October 2nd!

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2 CDs. Tracklisting:
Disk: 1
1. James Bond Theme - The John Barry Orchestra
2. From Russia With Love - Matt Monro
3. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
4. Thunderball - Tom Jones
5. You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
6. On Her Majestys Secret Service - The John Barry Orchestra
7. We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong
8. Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
9. Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings
10. The Man With The Golden Gun - Lulu
11. Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
12. Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
13. For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
14. All Time High - Rita Coolidge
15. A View To A Kill - Duran Duran
16. The Living Daylights - a-ha
17. Licence To Kill - Gladys Knight
18. GoldenEye - Tina Turner
19. Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow
20. The World Is Not Enough - Garbage
21. Die Another Day - Madonna
22. You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
23. Another Way To Die - Jack White & Alicia Keys
Disk: 2
1. Dr. No's Fantasy - The Monty Norman Orchestra
2. Under The Mango Tree - Diana Coupland
3. 007 - The John Barry Orchestra
4. Opening Titles (Medley) - The John Barry Orchestra
5. Into Miami - The John Barry Orchestra
6. The Laser Beam - The John Barry Orchestra
7. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Shirley Bassey
8. Switching The Body - The John Barry Orchestra
9. Capsule In Space - The John Barry Orchestra
10. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown - Nina
11. Bond Smells A Rat - The John Barry Orchestra
12. Fillet Of Soul - New Orleans / Live And Let Die / Fillet Of Soul
13. Underground Lair - The John Barry Orchestra
14. Hips Trip - The John Barry Orchestra
15. The Pyramids - Marvin Hamlisch
16. Cable Car And Snake Fight - The John Barry Orchestra
17. Make It Last All Night - Bill Conti (featuring Rage)
18. The Chase Bomb Theme - The John Barry Orchestra
19. Snow Job - The John Barry Orchestra
20. Where Has Everybody Gone - The Pretenders
21. If There Was A Man - The Pretenders
22. The Experience Of Love - Eric Serra
23. James Bond Theme (Moby's Re Version) - Moby
24. Surrender - k.d. lang
25. Only Myself To Blame - Scott Walker
26. Vesper - David Arnold
27. Time To Get Out - David Arnold

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Very nice 2001 interview with John Barry on BBC Radio 2 Friday Night Is Music Night. It included him speaking with great affection of his time before 1962 when he was with the John Barry Seven, arranging for Adam Faith and playing at the Rialto. Worth catching on BBC Iplayer if you missed it. The interview is around the half way point in the programme.

I enjoyed the Bond & Beyond concert on BBC Radio 2 on Friday night, though I actually watched it on BBC's red button facility. A few errors by the presenters and caption-writers, but the performance by the BBC Philharmonic was mostly excellent. Some of the non-Bond music was not really from Spy movies, but I was pleased to hear North by Northwest & Where Eagles Dare anyway. Claire Moore & Lance Ellington did some decent versions of Bond songs but I thought the sound balance was wrong for Ren Harvieu.