Five James Bonds by John Barry - Complete

jerryg529 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:49 pm

From Russia With Love; The Man With the Golden Gun; Moonraker; Octopussy; A View to a Kill

These five are, I believe, the only John Barry Bond's that have not gotten the expanded/complete treatment. I'm anxious to hear the complete scores for the last four, in particular. I especially love the 'gunbarrel' cues for the latter two.

Thanks for listening.

p.s. I added From Russia With Love to this list when I realized it too was incomplete.

musicfanatic · **Joined:** Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:29 pm **Posts:** 354

I to would love complete versions of these scores because they were magnificent. I did read somewhere however that the masters for these were lost or destroyed. I hope that is wrong and that masters survive somewhere. This is John Barry we're talking about, anything by him that was lost is a major crime.

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:41 am

Lukas Kendall, who produced the 2003 expansions, noted that The Man with the Golden Gun, and possibly The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy, had tapes available for expansion but time and budgetary constraints prevented it.

As for today, it has been noted that the foremost issue is utter disinterest on Eon's part.

I think that we're very lucky to have what we have, although Michael Kamen's score really deserves a better presentation. A brilliant sounding and perfectly performed recording such as that should not be chopped-up and arranged in such an odd manner.

H TRAIN · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:25 am **Posts:** 539

eggerty1 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:59 am **Posts:** 4

The Bond films seem to be in the grey area which a few high profile titles seem to fall in. Too big for to pass them over to specialist labels, yet they have no interest in expanding them themselves. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Titanic all seem to fall into this category as well.
It's a shame but it is what it is. It's hard to complain too much when there are so many other wonderful titles coming out.

Would love to get all the Barry & Arnold scores expanded (sorry Marvin)

jerryg529 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:28 pm

With the recent passing of Guy Hamilton, now would be the perfect time to do 'The Man With The Golden Gun'.

jerryg529 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:39 pm

With LLL's release of 'Die Another Day', I thought it was time for a bump.

litefoot · **Posted:** Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:21 am

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