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National Film Theatre, London, Jane Fonda season: 'The Chase': Sat 11th June 1745 NFT1, Wed 15th June 2020 NFT3.

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Visitors to the John Barry page on the IMDb website may have seen this mentioned recently:

Sprung! The Magic Roundabout (2005) (song "Wonderful World") ...
aka Pollux - Le manège enchanté (France)

Composer Mark Thomas (session player on A View To A Kill) has assured us that this is an error: "There is no music by John Barry in Sprung! The Magic Roundabout - ... this is accurate information - some source tracks were used in the film but none by John Barry..."

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The Dutch radiostation Concertzender announces for next Saturday, February Feb. 19 (21:00 Amsterdam Time =CET) in their series Unheard Scores The Horse Whisperer rejected score by John Barry. The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Barry.

Note: This was an integral broadcasting of the The Beyondness Of Things CD; no commentary whatsoever.

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The BAFTA website has an article on John Barry.

You can find it here: http://www.bafta.org/Film2005/index.html

Then click on link "Articles" and then link "Perfect Score". And then "Read on..."

Update April 2015: link is gone.

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John Barry receives the Fellowship of the British Academy. Virginia McKenna read the citation and Richard Lord Attenborough made the introduction and presented the award. Dedicated page here...

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"Bond composer rails against successors. Modern scores meaningless, says Oscar-winner"

On Saturday, February 12, John Barry receives the "Academy Fellowship" at the Baftas for an outstanding lifetime contribution to cinema.

These awards *are* meant to be secret, I'm sure .. and your Webmaster and site-owner were informed of the forth-coming award last week but were asked not to announce it before the event. Ah well, it seems JB has decided to break the news himself via the media in an interview in The Guardian.

Whereas we admire his candour, it's probably not the best way of making friends and influencing people! In lashing out not only at his fellow composers but also directors and producers, it begs the question "who will hire him now?"

We, of course, congratulate John for this wonderful honour. We wish we could be there to witness the event first hand but will make do with our seat in front of the TV on Saturday evening!

In the Guardian interview, Barry also rails against his successors: "Modern scores (are) meaningless" and comments on whether he "could be tempted to write a score for Casino Royale, " the new James Bond movie to be made for release in 2006.

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Have a look at our new "bootbusters" page reporting bootleggers (illegal sellers of John Barry's work). Please reports boots, with the source. We do *not* look for them ourselves on place such as ebay.

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Here you will find many posters advertising the films for which John Barry composed the score. They include several of the James Bond series, and Oscar-winning films such as Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa & Dances with Wolves.

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Readers might like to know of a book just out with some links to John Barry. ‘The Session Man - the story of Bobby Graham’, is a fascinating and extremely frank account of the life and times of drummer Bobby Graham, who was one of Barry’s first signings to Ember Records and who led the John Barry Seven after Vic Flick departed for session work.

Graham soon followed Flick into session work and the pair worked on countless pop hits of the sixties, often doing the work on sessions that the group members themselves were not good enough to perform. Indeed, Bobby was Dave Clark on all the Dave Clark 5 hits - a fact which Clark sought to conceal for many years!

Thoroughly recommended and very reasonably priced, too, at £8.99 pounds including postage (to the UK).

You can order the book direct from the publishers via a link from Bob’s web-site - do it now and it might even arrive in time for Christmas!!

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In addition to the previously reviewed Platinum Corp and Aussie DVDs of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, there are now four more versions available. These new offerings were found on Amazon.com. Check out our Alice page.