Music by John Barry

Ruud, Sian Barry Prendergast, Geoff Leonard This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Geoff Leonard was born in Bristol. He spent much of his working career in banking but became an independent record producer in the early nineties, specialising in the works of John Barry and British TV theme compilations.

He also wrote liner notes for many soundtrack albums, including those by John Barry, Roy Budd, Ron Grainer, Maurice Jarre and Johnny Harris.

He co-wrote two biographies of John Barry in 1998 and 2008, and is currently working on a biography of The John Barry Seven.

He joined the Internet Movie Data-base (www.imdb.com) as a data-manager in 2001 and looked after biographies, composers and the music-department, amongst other tasks.

Geoff retired after nine years loyal service in order to continue writing.

Geoff (owner) and Ruud (webmaster) have been running the John Barry website since June 18, 2001.

Photo left to right: webmaster Ruud, Sian Barry Prendergast and Geoff Leonard in London, June 18, 2011.

John Barry (1933-2011)

Welcome to the newly designed John Barry - The Man With The Midas Touch website.

For the uninitiated, yet curious, John Barry was arguably Britain's best-known composer of film music. He emerged at a time when the score of a movie was seldom recorded for the album market, and when the musical arranger, for all his importance to the end product, was a comparatively anonymous part of the film-making process.

Barry's career spanned the years in which there was an increasing awareness of the importance of these roles. The expansion of the record industry in the 1960s; the growing recognition of the impact of a memorable main theme on box office receipts; a wider acceptance of film music as a serious art form per se, all helped ensure that securing the services of a 'name' composer is now almost as important as hiring the star actors. Musicians from all genres entered the fray, but only the most talented survived.

John Barry not only survived, but prospered spectacularly. The aim of this web-site is a modest one: to help explain the route he took to win the position of preeminence he holds. In doing so, we set out to provide as complete a record of his musical achievements as possible.

It is also an invaluable reference point for any inquisitive musicologist who wishes to sample Barry's prolific output; and finally, it may induce the record industry to continue to re-evaluate what has become an internationally popular back catalogue.

Geoff Leonard (owner) and Ruud (webmaster) have been running the John Barry website since June 18, 2001.

Geoff Leonard / Pete Walker / Gareth Bramley
Ruud (webmaster)

Hi there

This is some text above the tabs

+ - My first slider in Joomla Click to collapse

some text here

Tabs & Sliders [for articles] makes adding tabs or sliders (accordions) inside your content a piece of cake.

Using a simple syntax you can easily organize your content in tabs or sliders making it better stand out and easier to navigate: for example, organizing your long product descriptions in tabs improves the readability of your product pages, which means more happy customers!

+ - Joomla is the best Click to collapse

some more text here

Tabs & Sliders [for articles] makes adding tabs or sliders (accordions) inside your content a piece of cake.

+ - Third one Click to collapse

some more text here and so on...

Tabs & Sliders [for articles] makes adding tabs or sliders (accordions) inside your content a piece of cake.

And that should be it.