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JAMES BOND
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A handful of lyricists have made significant contributions to the James Bond films, often writing more than one song for different films in the series throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Whilst later songs were written by the vocalists’ usual lyricist (and limited to one film), many of the early compositions were collaborations between the composer and prolific stage/screen songwriters. Their contribution deserves special recognition, and selected lyricists are pictured below. |
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*Geoff Love (1917-1991) was a prolific arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of classical and film themes. He became famous in the late 1950s, playing under the pseudonym of ‘Manuel and The Music of The Mountains’. In 1975 he also recorded ‘Big Bond Movie Themes’ for the Music for Pleasure label in the UK. Featuring re-recordings of the James Bond title themes from Dr. No (1962) to The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) [and including Burt Bacharach's ‘Casino Royale’], the album was originally issued with a sleeve painted by British artist Tom Chantrell (1916-2001), responsible for many memorable film posters including several for Hammer films. He also painted posters for many of the Carry On films including Carry On Spying (1964), the poster for which was very similar to the Renato Fratini artwork seen on the UK quad-crown poster for From Russia With Love (1963). EON Productions objected to the similarities and the poster was ultimately slightly amended. EON also objected to the album sleeve for ‘Big Bond Movie Themes’ as it infringed their copyright of Roger Moore's image from posters painted by Robert McGinnis. The album was later re-issued with amended artwork which also revised the pictorial representations of Ursula Andress, Sean Connery and Telly Savalas. Tom Chantrell is probably best-remembered as the artist who painted the iconic Style-C poster for Star Wars (1977) that was later adopted as the quad-crown poster for the UK release. This is the only Star Wars poster to feature the likeness of Peter Cushing. |
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