So then I got my head on right, and I thought that's the definitive song. And then I thought of Kurt Weill's 'Mack the Knife,' which is the definitive song about a villain. People don't sit down and write songs about villains. I discussed it with myself, and I thought, 'Well, what is this about? It's a song about a villain.' And then I started to reflect historically - there's no songs about villains. 'They said, 'Go away and write it.' So I never discussed it with the director or the producers. On Writing The Theme Song For 'Goldfinger' He is survived by his wife Laurie and four children. John Barry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986. So everybody went in - they knew he was going to get the broad, he'd kill the villain, he'd be happy. We just made everything larger-than-life, and we made it a lot of fun. And give it class.' And hopefully, that's what we did. 'And as Fred Astaire said, 'Give it size. Or, as Barry called it, 'million-dollar Mickey Mouse music.' One of Barry's best-known creations was the score and title-track music for the Bond film Goldfinger - big, brassy tunes that were reminiscent of Western anthems. There's no, 'Well, it works a little.' A good score is a score that really works 100 percent, where you just hit all the buttons.' I mean, with film there's no middle ground, you know. 'Every time says, 'I'm Bond - James Bond,' it laid in all over the damn place,' he said. No at the Pavilion in Piccadilly in London. His first encounter with his Bond musical score came during a screening of Dr. In fact, Barry didn't even see a preview of the film before it appeared in theaters. I knew roughly what the essence was, but I never saw the movie. 'I'd only seen like a cartoon strip that they used to have in the Daily Mail in England. 'I didn't sit down and intellectualize about it, and I've never read a James Bond book,' Barry said. In 1999, he joined Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a conversation about his career, and revealed that he didn't initially think too much about composing music for the Bond films. He was 77.īarry also scored about 100 films, winning Oscars for his music from The Lion in Winter, Born Free, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves. (Keystone/Getty Images)Ĭomposer John Barry, who wrote the scores for 11 Bond films, as well as the theme songs for Goldfinger and Thunderball, died Sunday. Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton in a scene from the James Bond film Goldfinger.

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