John Barry dies

mike65 · 31-01-2011 11:09am #1

The man who gave the world the greatest movie music mofit as we know it as died at 77. The famous twangy Bond theme is credited to Monty Norman but it was Barry who created the arrangement. Bizarrely the authorship of a few notes ended up being "decided" to no-ones satisfaction in the London High Court defamation case. But there seems little doubt the 007 theme as heard in the films is Barrys creation.

http://www.jollinger.com/barry/lawsuit.htm

Barry won 4 Oscars and a Grammy.

bnt · 31-01-2011 11:16am

Barry was behind possibly my favourite movie themes: Midnight Cowboy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU

Phony Scott · 31-01-2011 11:42am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRJnK-uWbfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paPFl5WMZqs

My personal favourites, despite being one of the most hated bond movies, and of course this Bruce Lee "classic". RIP John Barry.

Chad ghostal · 31-01-2011 12:04pm

RIP

Pipped at the post for OHMSS by Phony!
Loved that soundtrack and still think it's easily one of the best Bond movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYQ7dxwRkUM

Sad Professor · 31-01-2011 2:11pm

I love his OHMSS score.

Also love his score for Dances With Wolves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Ia8jje2t4

krudler · 31-01-2011 2:42pm

RIP, its sad that a lot of these amazing composers are getting to their twilight years, can you imagine what it'll be like when John Williams dies? that man scored my childhood

Duggy747 · 31-01-2011 4:11pm

krudler wrote: »

RIP, its sad that a lot of these amazing composers are getting to their twilight years, can you imagine what it'll be like when John Williams dies? that man scored my childhood

John William's music....

*stares into sky*

...will never die.............*sniff*

RIP to the creater of one of the most catchy themes and the spawner of other "spy" themes which you hear twangs of in everything. That sort of covert mystery tone as somebody sneaks about the place taking photos of documents in drawers :pac:

Latchy · 31-01-2011 8:13pm

A man who left his musical scores in every major film of last 50 odd years including Born Free, 007 theme, Zulu ,Walkabout , Midnight Cowboy ,Indecent proposal and many more including this one .

The Good Times Are Coming (The Monte Walsh Theme )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZG3Fs-hN_o

RIP

Dozen Wicked Words · 31-01-2011 8:15pm

Terrific composer, RIP

johndoe99 · 01-02-2011 1:34pm

he certainly made an impact on music, my favourite is Zulu.

Dudess · 01-02-2011 1:57pm

Aw wow, loved him. Walkabout and The Ipcress File are sublime. Was supposed to have been quite the lothario - apparently Michael Caine came to stay at Barry's place but Barry was entertaining some female guests and Caine did not see him for four days... :pac:

jacool · 01-02-2011 10:40pm

Dunno if anyone listens to Filmic, a monthly show on radionowhere.org but available on podcast. The host is Ley Bricknell, the music is from movies and she plays a Barry track every show. She will be heart-broken - always praising him and some months its just small snippets from Bond movies or so, but always great music.