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Miss Shirley Bassey
Written by author John Williams, this is an unauthorised biography of the singer, just been published in the UK.

A cursory glance through the book reveals details of an affair with John Barry during the '63/4 concert tour.

It also includes an unsuccessful legal attempt to force the Bond producers to include "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" in the film Thunderball, after Barry had allegedly not liked her version and re-recorded it with Dionne Warwick.

The book is already available at almost half-price via amazon.co.uk
Book review in The Guardian

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Intrada releases The Deep CD

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Don Black to be Named Icon at BMI London Awards

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John Barry to be honored with lifetime achievement award at Ghent Film Festival - latest updates, tickets, programme.

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August 30, 2010 update

information thanks to Ronald Van Zande

John Barry in Concert / Filmfestival Gent
donderdag 21 oktober 2010, 20u30 Kuipke

• Link to tickets order page
• Link to the VIP tickets order page

More links with information (Flemish/Dutch):

• http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=BLKVA_20100318_004
• http://www.cinenews.be/News.Detail.cfm?ContentsID=17420&lang=nl
• http://www.filmfestival.be/agenda2.cgi?go=detail&id=252&lang=nl(officlal festival website)
• http://www.visitgent.be/smartsite.dws?id=11132&ch=VGN
• http://www.viptickets.be/VIP-Tickets/VIP-Concerten-Klassiek/John-Barry-in-Concert-Filmfestival-Gent-vip/

Programme:

• 20u30: start van het eerste deel van het concert in aanwezigheid van John Barry
  (start of the first part of the concert, John Barry will be attending)
• 21u15: pauze
  (interval)
• 21u30: start van het tweede deel van het concert
  (start of the second part of the concert)
• 22u15: einde concert, Na het concert genieten u en uw genodigden van een verzorgde receptie in het bijzijn van dirigent Nicholas Dodd en andere prominenten 
  (end of the concert. After the concert you and your invitees will be able to enjoy a reception in the presence of conductor Nicholas Dodd and other celebrities)

Deel 1 (46’)

• Goldfinger
• We Have All The Time in The World
• Zulu
• Somewhere in Time
• Moviola
• The Persuaders
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Midnight Cowboy
• Dances With Wolves Suite

Deel 2 (48’)

• Born Free
• All Time High (Octopussy)
• Out of Africa
• Body Heat
• Chaplin
• Space March (You Only Live Twice)
• The Knack
• The James Bond Suite

VIP-arrangement

• Stijlvolle tickethouders met het verloop van de avond
• parkingtickets inclusief wegbeschrijving
• shuttle service tot 24u00
• Eersterangplaatsen in de concertzaal
• toegang tot de receptie na het filmmuziekconcert
• Begeleiding door hostesses
• Verzorgde receptie in het bijzijn van dirigent Nicholas Dodd en andere prominenten

VIP-ticket: 125 euro p.p. (minimum 2 personen)

exclusief 21% btw
Reservatiekosten € 3.75 p.p. (met een minimum van € 15 per dossier) 
Verzendingskosten € 7.50 per dossier

oooOOOooo

March 22, 2010

John Barry is being honored with a lifetime achievement award from the World Soundtrack Academy. The five-time Oscar winner will receive the award on October 21, during the Ghent Film Festival in Belgium.

The ceremony will be followed by a performance of Barry's work by the Brussels Philharmonic. The program will include selections from Goldfinger, Out of Africa, Mary, Queen of Scots, Dances with Wolves and Midnight Cowboy.  Conductor will be Nicholas Dodd, and the concert will be accompanied by a video presentation of film clips. 

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The Melancholy Touch: Romantic Shades of John Barry’s Bond included in new book "James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough."

August 19, 2010

Karl Madden, Professor, Dept of the Library, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, has written a book chapter entitled The Melancholy Touch: Romantic Shades of John Barry’s Bond – which is included in a new book to be available this September 2010 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing: "James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough".

Edited by Robert G. Weiner, B. Lynn Whitfield and Jack Becker, the book can be pre-ordered via amazon.com and although (currently) quite expensive ($82) it consists of an impressive 515 pages containing 40 original essays with new insights, scholarship, and understanding to the world of James Bond. Topics include the Bond girl, Bond related video games, Ian Fleming's relationship with the notorious Aleister Crowley and CIA director Alan Dulles. Other articles include Fleming as a character in modern fiction, Bond Jr. comics, the post Fleming novels of James Gardner and Raymond Benson, Bond as an American Superhero, and studies on the music, dance, fashion, and architecture in Bond films. Woody Allen and Peter Sellers as James Bond, are also considered as is Japanese imitation films from the 1960s, the Britishness of Bond, comparisons of Bond to Christian ideals, movie posters and much more. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have contributed a unique collection of perspectives on the world of James Bond and its history.

Madden: "I tried to explore a subtle sadness – a deeper dimension than is usually recognized – I feel John Barry brings to the character of James Bond."

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John Barry featured in the Neil Brand spot on today's Radio 4  "Film Programme"
- an analasys of JB's music.

Update April 2015: link is gone.

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"The amoral ones",
article on the filming of Guy Hamilton's 'The Party's Over'
Peter Cowie, Films & Filming, December 1962
Scanned by Geoff Leonard, June 8, 2010

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The first ever Zulu film exhibition opens on the 24th July at the London Film Museum. 

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