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Fellowship of the British Academy
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Saturday, February12, 2005
Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London
On the occasion of John Barry receiving The Fellowship of The British Academy, presenter Stephen Fry introduces BAFTA President Lord Richard Attenborough, who in turn calls upon Virginia McKenna to read the citation. Lord Attenborough then presented the award to John.
Photos 1
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Miscellaneous newspaper advertising.
Photos 2
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Miscellaneous shots of John Barry including some with The John Barry Seven, Adam Faith, Shirley Bassey, Ray Brooks, Brian Matthew, Johnny Worth, Marty Wilde & Lonnie Donegan.
Full size image You Only Live Twice recording
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Click on photo again to see it in browser outside this page - then it's full size (depending on your browser settings.)
From the back (horns etc.) going down to the front, from left to right:
| 3 (horn) | 4 (horn) | 5 (horn) | 6 (horn) |
| Jim Burditt | Andrew McGavin | Ian Harper | John Burden |
| 7 (flute) | 8 (flute) | 9 (flute) | 10 (flute) |
| ? | Chris Taylor | Jack Ellery | David Sandeman |
| 11 | 12 (?) | 13 (oboe) | 14 (bassoon) |
| Derek Wickens | Terence MacDonagh | Ron Waller | Tony Judd |
In the strings section on the right-hand side of the photo:
Front row:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Sid Sax (orchestra leader) |
Paul Shurman | Alec Firman | Erich Gruenberg | Henry Datyner |
Others also present, but not identified individually are:
Billy Miller
Peter Halling
Leonard Dight
Raymond Cohen
Joshua Glazier
Louie Rosen
David Belmann
John Ronayne
The bass player by the bottom right corner of the film screen is the principal bassist with the RPO, Edmund (Nick) Chesterman.
Clarinetist Jack Brymer can be seen sitting on his own on the left-hand-side; a SMOKING fixer Sid Margo can be seen next to JB.
Ron Prentice is the bass guitarist in the booth and we think mandolin player Hugo Dalton is next to him.
Photos recording session You Only Live Twice
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Photos taken by Harry Myers in May 1967 during the recording session for the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, which featured a theme song sung by Nancy Sinatra, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Click on photo for full size to identify the musicians.
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Photos Prague - Recordings Nic Raine -1
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Photos & screen-grabs featuring Nic Raine and The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. These were taken in Prague between 1999 & 2001 during the recording sessions for Raise the Titanic, Walkabout, Mary, Queen of Scots, The Lion in Winter, Robin & Marian, The Last Valley and various James Bond themes.
Photos Prague - Recordings Nic Raine -2
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Actually these photos are probably nothing to do with Barry, since we recorded many other works, too! The ones taken from above are definitely not, nor are the ones featuring the cimbalom.
The Music of ITC
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Gareth Bramley comments on the newly released "The Music of ITC" double CD.
November 7, 2009
Persuaders!
Unfortunately, despite being on of the most-loved ITC series, a lot of the music from The Persuaders! is believed to be lost in its original format. The song Gotta Get Away featured in the series' opener, Overture, and has been released on various collections since (the only release I know of is the original Columbia LP from 1971/2 by Trent & Hatch). The opening and closing credits made use of the same piece of music, reduced to a 29 second edit for the end titles.
On this set - as I predicted - we hear the original opening theme with the normal outro (i.e. without the cymbalom which was stuck on for the single release) but I think it is mono as it appears from the original series and fades quite significantly at the end.
Comprises: Main titles / Song / Instrumental of song (Hatch / Thorne) and a further incidental theme which I recall vividly.
A great shame most of the Thorne stuff is lost but my guess is that he will have it (and copies) and has so far been unable to issue it. I loved all that stuff he did and pity only one real theme is included here. Sure the main titles is Mono but hard to tell.
Adventurer
As I had hoped it includes both versions of the theme. One is the usual main title and the alternate theme which was only used as the end theme on some episodes - 5 if I recall. So the other episodes they just used the main title instead of the end title theme.
They list it on the CD as Closing titles alternate version so I guess it was just down to whether they had more or less credits at the end which determined which version they used - the alternate version or the reprise of the opening theme.
The other track is the Italian Main Titles which we saw on the DVD! Awful and an unknown composer. A good recording on all three tracks and could well be stereo as sounds like it - not faded too abruptly either so full marks to the compilers here as we now have 2 more rare Barry tracks on CD - 3 with the alternate Persuaders Theme.
Hammett, Region 1 dvd, review
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Hammett, Region 1 dvd, review
DVD region 1 release, November 1, 2005
Review of The Black Hole
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Review of The Black Hole
R1 DVD
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