"The Living Daylights (soundtrack) The Living Daylights is the soundtrack title for the film ""The Living Daylights"" and the eleventh and final Bond soundtrack to be scored by composer John Barry. The soundtrack is notable for its introduction of sequenced electronic rhythm tracks overdubbed with the orchestra – at the time, a relatively new innovation. The title song of the film, ""The Living Daylights"", was recorded by pop group A-ha. As of 2017 this is the only Bond film where the title song has not been performed by a British or an American. A-ha and Barry did not collaborate well,"
"and initially proposed a prequel, showing Bond's first mission, although this was turned down by Broccoli. Script work continued while the producers searched for Moore's successor. The film was shot at the 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, with principal photography starting on 29 September 1986, before moving to Vienna on 5 October, where the crew filmed for two weeks. Meanwhile, the second unit had started work on the pre-credits sequence on Gibraltar on 17 September before moving to Morocco. Filming finished on 13 February 1987. ""The Living Daylights"" was the twelfth and final Bond film to be scored by composer"
"The Living Daylights The Living Daylights is a 1987 British spy film, the fifteenth entry in the ""James Bond"" film series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by John Glen, the film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's short story ""The Living Daylights"" the plot of which also forms the basis of the first act of the film. It was the last film to use the title of an Ian Fleming story until the 2006 instalment ""Casino Royale"". The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, his"
"its two predecessors on the British album charts. ""Stay on These Roads"" has been certified Platinum in Brazil and France, and Gold in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands. The album includes the title-track theme song to the James Bond film ""The Living Daylights"". The version that appears on their album is a re-recording of the film version and single. The band has said that they are particularly proud of the title track, and all three members contributed to its writing. ""Stay on These Roads"" and ""The Living Daylights"" would remain part of their live set throughout the rest"
"Live and Let Die (song) ""Live and Let Die"" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was the most successful Bond theme to that point, charting at No. 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Commissioned specifically for the movie, it reunited the former Beatle with the band's producer, George Martin, who produced the song and arranged the orchestra. It has been covered by several bands, with the Guns N' Roses version being"
"a Kill"" the melody of the theme was played on strings. Timothy Dalton's first film ""The Living Daylights"", which was the last Bond film scored by Barry, used a symphonic version with the melody played on strings. This version of the Bond theme is notable for its introduction of sequenced electronic rhythm tracks overdubbed with the orchestra - at the time, a relatively new innovation. In ""Licence to Kill"", the Bond theme was arranged by Michael Kamen using rock drums to symbolize a harder and more violent Bond. This gunbarrel is the first one since ""Dr. No"" not starting with"
"You Only Live Twice (song) ""You Only Live Twice"", performed by Nancy Sinatra, is the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film of the same name. The music was by veteran Bond film composer John Barry, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. The song is widely recognized for its striking opening bars, featuring a simple 2-bar theme in the high octaves of the violins and lush harmonies from French horns. It is considered by some to be among the best James Bond theme songs, and has become one of Nancy Sinatra's best known hits. Shortly after Barry's production, Sinatra's producer"
"well as adding eight additional tracks also extended several of the original ones, such as ""Bond Meets Solitaire"". Except as noted, all tracks composed by George Martin. Live and Let Die (soundtrack) Live and Let Die is the soundtrack to the eighth James Bond film of the same name. It was scored by George Martin. The title song was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was the first Bond film score not to involve John Barry. The music for most of the Bond films through ""Diamonds Are Forever"" had been scored by"
"Media. Sam Smith's ""Writing's on the Wall"" from ""Spectre"" would also win the Oscar for Best Original Song. Duran Duran and John Barry's ""A View To A Kill"" topped the singles charts in the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100, the only Bond theme to hit 1 in the United States. No James Bond theme had topped the charts in the UK until Sam Smith's ""Writing's on the Wall"" entered the charts at number one on 2 October 2015. Several of the later films have alternative theme songs, often during the closing credits. ""The Living Daylights"" featured The Pretenders performing ""If There"
"Live and Let Die (soundtrack) Live and Let Die is the soundtrack to the eighth James Bond film of the same name. It was scored by George Martin. The title song was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was the first Bond film score not to involve John Barry. The music for most of the Bond films through ""Diamonds Are Forever"" had been scored by John Barry. Due to his working on a musical, and having fallen out with Bond producer Harry Saltzman over the last title song, Barry was unavailable to"
"the main themes of three films in the James Bond series. Although Martin did not produce the theme for the second Bond film, ""From Russia with Love"", he was responsible for the signing of Matt Monro to EMI, just months prior to his recording of the song of the same title. Martin also produced two of the best-known James Bond themes. The first was ""Goldfinger"" by Shirley Bassey in 1964. The second, in 1973, was ""Live and Let Die"" by Paul McCartney and Wings for the film of the same name. He also composed and produced the film's score. In"
"You Only Live Twice (soundtrack) You Only Live Twice is the soundtrack for the fifth James Bond film of the same name. It was composed by Bond veteran John Barry. At the time, this was his fourth credited Bond film. The theme song, ""You Only Live Twice"", was sung by Nancy Sinatra, the first non-British vocalist of the series, with music by Barry and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. The soundtrack has previously been available in two versions on CD – the first, a straight reissue of the LP soundtrack, and the second, an expanded reissue including several previously unreleased tracks."
"Jack Lawrence (musician) ""Little"" Jack Lawrence (born December 18, 1976) is an American musician from Covington, Kentucky, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Lawrence currently plays bass guitar in The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes, The Dead Weather and City and Colour as well as the autoharp and banjo in Blanche. He also guested on the theme song to the 2008 Bond film ""Quantum of Solace"" entitled ""Another Way To Die"", playing bass guitar and baritone guitar. On May 22, 2009, Lawrence married photographer Jo McCaughey at Jack White's house in Nashville in a double ceremony with Meg White and Jackson Smith. Most"
"Monty Norman Monty Norman (born 4 April 1928) is a singer and film composer best known for composing the ""James Bond Theme"". Norman was born Monty Noserovitch in Stepney in the East End of London, the only child of Jewish parents, Annie (née Berlin) and Abraham Noserovitch, on the second night of Passover in 1928. When Norman's father was young, he travelled from Latvia to England with his mother (Norman's grandmother). As a child during World War II, Norman was evacuated from London but later returned during the Blitz. As a young man he did national service in the RAF,"
"scored. This motif can be heard in: The largest contributions to the Bond films, save for the ""James Bond Theme"", are works from John Barry. In addition to his uncredited contribution to ""Dr. No"", Barry composed eleven Bond soundtracks and is credited with the creation of ""007"" (dominated by brass and percussion) and the popular orchestral theme from ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". Next to Barry, David Arnold is the series' most regular composer. He composed the scores for five Bond films: ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" through ""Quantum of Solace"". His Barry-esque orchestrations combined with electronic rhythm elements gave the Pierce"
"film ""The Living Daylights"" in 1987. However, her most notable role has been as a producer of the Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan and later Daniel Craig. Following her father's death in 1996, Broccoli worked with London theatre producer Michael Rose, to create the stage musical version of ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" based on the 1968 musical film starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. Broccoli rehired the original songwriters from the film to write the new material for the stage version. The Sherman Brothers wrote five new songs for the show which debuted on April 16, 2002. The"
"then upcoming ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", to recommend Arnold as the film's composer. Arnold also went on to score four subsequent Bond films: ""The World Is Not Enough"", ""Die Another Day"", ""Casino Royale"" and ""Quantum of Solace"". Sole compositional credit for the ""James Bond Theme"" is assigned to Monty Norman, who was contracted as composer for ""Dr. No"". Some 30 years later, in 2001, the disputed authorship of the theme was examined legally in the High Court in London after Norman sued ""The Sunday Times"" for publishing an article in 1997 in which Barry was named as the true composer; Barry"
"when the ""007 Theme"" is used in a Roger Moore Bond film; it is as of 2017 the last time it has been heard in a Bond film. Another link between the soundtracks of ""Moonraker"" and ""Diamonds Are Forever"" is the inclusion of a track titled ""Bond Smells a Rat"". The two tracks are not related to each other. Unusually, the score was recorded in Paris—all of Barry's previous Bond scores had been recorded at London's CTS Studios. The film's production base was in France and it was decided the film would be scored there as well. Like some Bond"
"the top music videos of all time. Songs by A-ha, either in original form or in the form of cover versions have also been included as background music and performances in episodes of popular television series, such as ""Baywatch"", ""Melrose Place"", ""South Park"", ""Smallville"", ""Cougar Town"", ""Private Practice"", ""The Leftovers (TV series)"" and ""The Simpsons"", as well as in promotions for shows like ""Dance Moms"". A-ha's music has also been featured in movies such as ""One Night at McCool's"", ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" and ""Corky Romano"". They have written and performed a James Bond theme song – ""The Living Daylights"" for"
"Barry was the composer, most recently against ""The Sunday Times"" in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary ""Inside Dr. No"", Norman performs a music piece which he wrote for the stage several years earlier entitled ""Bad Sign, Good Sign"", that resembles the melody of the ""James Bond Theme"" in several places. Norman collected around £600,000 in royalties between the years 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since ""Dr. No"". Monty Norman Monty Norman (born 4 April 1928) is a singer and film composer best known for composing the ""James Bond Theme"". Norman was born Monty Noserovitch in Stepney"
"in Bayswater, London. Sinatra later recalled that she was incredibly nervous during the recording, and it took around 30 takes to acquire enough material. Producer John Barry eventually created the final product by incorporating vocals from 25 takes. Roy Wood described Barry's string introduction to his song ""You Only Live Twice"" as ""absolute perfection"". Mark Monahan of ""The Daily Telegraph"" described the lyrics as ""mysterious, romantically ""carpe diem"" ... at once velvety, brittle and quite bewitching"". David Ehrlich of ""Rolling Stone"" ranked ""You Only Live Twice"" the third best James Bond theme song, calling it ""a classic."" The song is"
"Paul Waaktaar-Savoy Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (born Pål Waaktaar Gamst, 6 September 1961) is a Norwegian musician and songwriter. He was named Knights First Class of the Order of St. Olav by King Harald for his services to Norwegian music and his international success. Pål Savoy is best known for his work as the main songwriter and guitarist in the Norwegian pop band A-ha. He has written or co-written most of the band's biggest hits, including ""The Sun Always Shines on T.V."", ""Hunting High and Low"", ""Take On Me"", the James Bond theme ""The Living Daylights"" and the ballad ""Summer Moved On""."
"had happened to ""Licence to Kill"". With a worldwide gross of , ""The Living Daylights"" became the fourth most successful Bond film at the time of its release. In 1998 the second Deluxe Edition of Bond's soundtracks was released. ""The Living Daylights"" was one of the first soundtracks to receive Deluxe treatment. The booklet/poster of this CD contains MGM's quote about ""The Living Daylights"" being the fourth most successful Bond film. Since Dalton was contracted for three Bond films, the pre-production of his third film began in 1990, in order to be released in 1991. What was confirmed is that"
"end credits is David Arnold's ""Casino Royale"" track ""The Name's Bond…James Bond"". Despite this, the film's score was composed by Thomas Newman, who also incorporated the ""James Bond Theme"" throughout the entire film. In ""Spectre"", the theme appears at the beginning of the film as part of the opening gunbarrel sequence, indicating a return to the franchise's classic roots of 1962–2002. Over 70 cover versions of the ""James Bond Theme"" have been recorded by artists such as: American electronica musician Moby produced a remixed version of the theme entitled ""James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)"" for the Bond film ""Tomorrow Never"
"the few 007 title songs that is not performed or written by a British or American performer. In a departure from previous Bond films, ""The Living Daylights"" was the first to use different songs over the opening and end credits. The song heard over the end credits, ""If There Was a Man"", was one of two songs performed for the film by Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. The other song, ""Where Has Everybody Gone"", is heard from Necros's Walkman in the film. The Pretenders were originally considered to perform ""Daylights""' title song. However, the producers had been pleased with the"
"the instrumental score versions of songs, while the main musicians (on Goldfinger: Vic Flick) were given the main film theme song to solely record, to be featured at the beginning of the film. Co-producer Harry Saltzman is said to have hated the song as too old fashioned for 1960s youth culture and only agreed to use it when persuaded by Albert Broccoli Originally, Newley recorded a version of the theme song, but it was later re-recorded with Bassey's voice for the film and soundtrack album. In 1992, Newley's version was released for the 30th Anniversary of James Bond on film,"
"James Bond music The ""James Bond"" film series from Eon Productions features numerous musical compositions since its inception in 1962, many of which are now considered classic pieces of British film music. The best known of these pieces is the ubiquitous ""James Bond Theme"". Other instrumentals, such as the ""007 Theme"" or ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", and various songs, such as Shirley Bassey's ""Goldfinger"", Paul McCartney's ""Live and Let Die"", Carly Simon's ""Nobody Does It Better"", Sheena Easton's ""For Your Eyes Only"" and Duran Duran's ""A View to a Kill"" have also become identified with the series. Two Bond"
"show which sold very well in Norway. A single called ""Black Rain"" which was released from his album ""Call Me Stranger"" in 1986, was nearly chosen as the themesong for the James Bond film ""The Living Daylights"" in 1987. (The choice fell on the Norwegian group a-ha instead.) He has been awarded two film music awards from Disney for his singing contribution to the Norwegian version of Disney films. Tor Endresen Tor Lars Oskar Endresen (born 15 June 1959 in Bergen) is a Norwegian singer and composer. He has entered the national Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest numerous times, but has"
"Maryam d'Abo Maryam d'Abo (born 27 December 1960) is an English film and television actress, perhaps best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film ""The Living Daylights"". Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze (born 1920), a daughter of Giorgi Kvinitadze, and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo (1917–1995), d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva.</small> She decided to be an actress at the age of 11. She studied at Drama Centre London, while working as an advertising model. D'Abo made her screen debut in the low-budget science fiction horror film ""Xtro"" (1982), playing"
"and orchestrated the ""James Bond Theme"", was unavailable during production. Broccoli and Saltzman instead asked Paul McCartney to write the theme song. Since McCartney's salary was high and another composer could not be hired with the remainder of the music budget, George Martin, who had been McCartney's producer while with The Beatles, was chosen to write the score for the film. ""Live and Let Die"", written by McCartney along with his wife Linda and performed by their group Wings, was the first true rock and roll song used to open a Bond film, and became a major success in the"
"to the first James Bond movie Dr No, and has been credited with writing the ""James Bond Theme"", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise. Norman has received royalties since 1962 for the theme, but it was arranged by John Barry after the producers were dissatisfied with Norman's music. Barry claims that he actually did write the theme, but nevertheless, Mr. Norman won two libel actions against publishers for claiming that Barry was the composer, most recently against The Sunday Times in 2001. During the trial, Barry testified on the stand that he had composed the James Bond Theme,"
"of ""You Only Live Twice"", the James Bond motion picture theme.This song was originally recorded by The Imperials -expressly for the film and its soundtrack- but was later given instead to Nancy Sinatra for the film, due to her father Frank's greater influence. They recorded three singles for Janus Records including ""Father Father"", which they later performed on the Merv Griffin Show. Then they went to Avco Records in the mid-1970s and recorded ""On A New Street"", and charted with the songs ""La La La (At the End)"" and ""I'm Falling in Love With You"". This album was produced by"
"Shirley Bassey Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (; born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films ""Goldfinger"" (1964), ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (1971), and ""Moonraker"" (1979). In January 1959, Bassey became the first Welsh person to gain a No. 1 single. In 2000, Bassey was made a Dame for services to the performing arts. In 1977 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years. Bassey has been called ""one of"