John Barry (composer) explained

John Barry (composer) should not be confused with John Barrymore.

John Barry
Honorific Suffix:OBE
Birth Name:John Barry Prendergast
Birth Date:3 November 1933
Birth Place:York, England
Death Place:Oyster Bay, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Composer, conductor

John Barry Prendergast (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011)[1] [2] was an English composer and conductor of film music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman.[3] Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry.[4] This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years.

He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, as well as arranging and performing the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves (1990) and Out of Africa (1985), as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter (1995), Chaplin (1992), The Cotton Club (1984), Game of Death (1972), The Tamarind Seed (1974), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music.

Barry received awards including five Academy Awards: two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black.

In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011.

Biography

Early life and education

Barry was born John Barry Prendergast in York, the youngest of four children. His mother, a classical pianist, was English; his Irish father, John Xavier "Jack" Prendergast from Cork, was a projectionist during the silent film era and later owned a chain of cinemas across northern England.[5] [6] As a result of his father's work, Barry was raised in and around cinemas in northern England[7] and he later stated that this childhood background influenced his musical tastes and interests.[5] He had two older brothers and one older sister.[8] Barry was educated at St Peter's School, York, and received composition lessons from Francis Jackson, Organist of York Minster.[5]

Career

Barry spent his national service in the British Army playing the trumpet, working from a correspondence course with jazz composer Bill Russo.[9] After national service he worked as an arranger for the orchestras of Jack Parnell and Ted Heath, forming his own band, the John Barry Seven,[10] in 1957. The John Barry Seven recorded hit records on EMI's Columbia label including "Hit and Miss", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme; a cover of the Johnny Smith song "Walk Don't Run"; and a cover of the theme for the United Artists western The Magnificent Seven.

By 1959 Barry was gaining commissions to arrange music for other acts, starting with a young trio on Decca, coincidentally called the Three Barry Sisters, though unrelated both to Barry and American duo The Barry Sisters.[11] The career breakthrough for Barry was the BBC television series Drumbeat, when he appeared with the John Barry Seven. He was employed by EMI from 1959 until 1962 arranging orchestral accompaniments for the company's singers, including Adam Faith.[12] He also composed songs (along with Les Vandyke) and scores for films in which Faith was featured. When Faith made his first film, Beat Girl (1960), Barry composed, arranged and conducted the film score, his first. His music was later released as the UK's first soundtrack album.[13]

Barry also composed the music for another Faith film, Never Let Go (also 1960), orchestrated the score for Mix Me a Person (1962), and composed, arranged and conducted the score for The Amorous Prawn (also 1962). In 1962, Barry transferred to Ember Records, where he produced and arranged albums.[14]

These achievements caught the attention of the producers of a new film called Dr. No (1962) who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Barry was hired and his arrangement of Norman's composition created the "James Bond Theme". When the producers of the Bond series sought to hire Lionel Bart to score the next James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), they learned that Bart could not read or write music. Though Bart wrote a title song for the film, the producers remembered Barry's arrangement of the James Bond Theme and his composing and arranging for several films with Adam Faith. Bart also recommended Barry to producer Stanley Baker for his 1964 film Zulu.[15] That same year Bart and Barry collaborated on the film Man in the Middle; and then, in 1965, Barry worked with director Bryan Forbes in scoring the World War II prison-camp drama King Rat.

This was the turning point for Barry, and he subsequently won five Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards, with scores for, among others, Born Free (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Midnight Cowboy (1969) for which he did not receive an on-screen credit, and Somewhere in Time (1980).[16]

Barry was often cited as having had a distinct style which concentrated on lush strings and extensive use of brass. He was one of the first to employ synthesizers in a film score (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, also 1969),[17] and to make wide use of pop artists and songs in Midnight Cowboy.[18] Because Barry provided not just the main title theme but the complete soundtrack score, his music often enhanced the critical reception of a film, notably in Midnight Cowboy, The Tamarind Seed, the first remake of King Kong (1976), Out of Africa (1985), and Dances with Wolves (1990). Barry would often watch films and would note down with pen and paper what worked or what did not.[6]

Barry composed the theme for the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), also known as The Unlucky Heroes, in which Tony Curtis and Roger Moore were paired as rich playboys solving crimes.[19] The instrumental recording features the cimbalom (which Barry also used for The Ipcress File (1965) and other themes) and Moog synthesizers. The theme was a hit single in many European countries (including France, Germany, and the Benelux states), contributing to the cult status of the series in Europe, and the record featured Barry's The Girl with the Sun in Her Hair on the B side, an instrumental piece featured in a long running TV advert for Sunsilk shampoo. Barry also wrote the scores to a number of musicals, including the 1965 Passion Flower Hotel (lyrics by Trevor Peacock), the successful 1974 West End show Billy (lyrics by Don Black),[20] and two intended Broadway musicals that never opened on Broadway, Lolita, My Love (1971), with Alan Jay Lerner as lyricist, and The Little Prince and the Aviator (1981), again with lyricist Don Black.[21] Barry also composed the soundtrack for the Bruce Lee film Game of Death (1978).

In 2001, the University of York conferred an honorary degree on Barry, and in 2002 he was named an Honorary Freeman of the City of York.[22] [23]

During 2006, Barry was the executive producer on an album entitled Here's to the Heroes by the Australian ensemble The Ten Tenors. The album features a number of songs Barry wrote in collaboration with his lyricist friend, Don Black. Barry and Black also composed one of the songs on Shirley Bassey's 2009 album, The Performance. The song, entitled "Our Time Is Now", is the first written by the duo for Bassey since "Diamonds Are Forever".[24]

James Bond

After the success of Dr. No, Barry was hired to compose and perform eleven of the next fourteen James Bond films.

In his tenure with the film series, Barry's music, variously brassy and moody, achieved very wide appeal. For From Russia with Love he composed "007", an alternative James Bond signature theme, which is featured in four other Bond films (Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker. The theme "Stalking", for the teaser sequence of From Russia with Love, was covered by colleague Marvin Hamlisch for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Barry also contributed indirectly to the soundtrack of the spoof version of Casino Royale (1967): his Born Free theme appears briefly in the opening sequence.

In Goldfinger (1964), he perfected the "Bond sound", a heady mixture of brass, jazz elements and sensuous melodies. There is even an element of Barry's jazz roots in the big-band track "Into Miami", which follows the title credits and accompanies the film's iconic image of the camera lens zooming toward the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

Barry's love for the Russian romantic composers is often reflected in his music; in his Bond scores he unites this with brass-heavy jazz writing. His use of strings, lyricism, half-diminished chords and complex key shifting provides melancholy contrast; in his scores this is often heard in variations of the title songs that are used to underscore plot development.[25]

As Barry matured, the Bond scores became more lushly melodic (along with other scores of his such as The Tamarind Seed and Out of Africa) as in Moonraker (1979) and Octopussy (1983). Barry's score for A View to a Kill was traditional, but his collaboration with Duran Duran for the title song was contemporary and reached number one in the United States and number two in the UK Singles Chart. Both A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights theme by A-ha blended the pop music style of the bands with Barry's orchestration. In 2006, A-ha's Pal Waaktaar complimented Barry's contributions: "I loved the stuff he added to the track, I mean it gave it this really cool string arrangement. That's when for me it started to sound like a Bond thing."[26]

Barry's last score for the Bond series was The Living Daylights (1987), Timothy Dalton's first film in the series, with Barry making a cameo appearance as a conductor in the film.[27] Barry was intended to score Licence to Kill (1989) but was recovering from throat surgery at the time, and it was considered unsafe to fly him to London to complete the score. The score was completed by Michael Kamen.[28]

David Arnold, a British composer, saw the result of two years' work in 1997 with the release of Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, an album of new versions of the themes from various James Bond films. Arnold thanks Barry in the sleeve notes, referring to him as "the Guvnor". Almost all of the tracks were Barry compositions, and the revision of his work met with his approval – he contacted Barbara Broccoli, producer of the then upcoming Tomorrow Never Dies, to recommend Arnold as the film's composer.[29] Arnold also went on to score four subsequent Bond films: The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.

Monty Norman, who was contracted as composer for Dr. No, received sole compositional credit for the "James Bond Theme". Nearly 40 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 libel for publishing an article in 1997 in which Barry was named as the true composer; Barry testified for the defence.[30] [31]

In court, Barry testified that he had been handed a musical manuscript of a work by Norman (meant to become the theme) and that he was to arrange it musically, and that he composed additional music and arranged the "James Bond Theme". He also claimed that Norman received sole credit because of his prior contract with the producers. Barry said that a deal was struck whereby he would receive a flat fee of £250 and Norman would receive the songwriting credit. Barry said that he had accepted the deal with United Artists Head of Music Noel Rogers because it would help his career. Despite these claims, the jury ruled unanimously in favour of Norman.[32]

On 7 September 2006, Barry reiterated his claim of authorship of the theme on the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2.[33]

Personal life and death

Barry was married four times. His first three marriages, to Barbara Pickard (1959–63), Jane Birkin (1965–68) and Jane Sidey (1969–78) all ended in divorce.[34] He was married to his fourth wife, Laurie, from January 1978[34] until his death. The couple had a son, Jonpatrick. Barry had three daughters: Suzanne with his first wife, Barbara; Kate with his second wife, Jane; and Sian, from a relationship with Ulla Larson between the first two marriages.[5]

In 1975, Barry moved to the US. A British judge later accused him of emigrating to avoid paying £134,000 due the Inland Revenue.[34] The matter was resolved in the late 1980s, and Barry was able to return to the UK.[34] He subsequently lived for many years in the United States, mainly in Oyster Bay, New York, in Centre Island on Long Island, from 1980.[5] [35]

Barry suffered a rupture of the esophagus in 1988, following a toxic reaction to a health tonic he had consumed. The incident rendered him unable to work for two years and left him vulnerable to pneumonia.[36]

Barry died of a heart attack on 30 January 2011 at his Oyster Bay home, aged 77.[37] [38]

A memorial concert took place on 20 June 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Shirley Bassey, Rumer, David Arnold, Wynne Evans and others performed Barry's music. Sir George Martin, Sir Michael Parkinson, Don Black, Timothy Dalton and others also contributed to the celebration of his life and work.[37] [39] [40] The event was sponsored by the Royal College of Music through a grant by the Broccoli Foundation.[41]

Awards and nominations

In 1999, Barry was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to music. He received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 2005.[40] [42] In 2005, the American Film Institute ranked Barry's score for Out of Africa No. 15 on their list of the greatest film scores.[43] His scores and original songs for the following films were nominated:[44]

Accolades

AwardYearProjectCategoryOutcome
Academy Awards1966Born FreeBest Original Music Score
"Born Free" (from Born Free), with Don BlackBest Original Song
1968The Lion in WinterBest Original Music Score – For a Motion Picture (Not a Musical)
1971Mary, Queen of ScotsBest Original Dramatic Score
1985Out of AfricaBest Original Score
1990Dances with WolvesBest Original Score
1992ChaplinBest Original Score
BAFTA Awards1968The Lion in WinterAnthony Asquith Award for Film Music
1986Out of AfricaBest Score[45]
1991Dances with WolvesBest Original Film Score[46]
2005BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award[47]
Golden Globe Awards1966"Born Free" (from Born Free), with Don BlackBest Original Song
1968The Lion in WinterBest Original Score
1971Mary, Queen of ScotsBest Original Score
1974"Sail the Summer Winds" (from The Dove), with Don BlackBest Original Song
1977"Down Deep Inside" (from The Deep), with Donna SummerBest Original Song
1981Somewhere in TimeBest Original Score
1985Out of AfricaBest Original Score
"A View to a Kill" (from A View to a Kill), with Duran DuranBest Original Song
1990Dances with WolvesBest Original Score
1992ChaplinBest Original Score

Grammy Award

Grammy Award nominations

Emmy Award nominations

Golden Raspberry Award

Max Steiner Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by the City of Vienna)

Lifetime Achievement Award from World Soundtrack Academy (presented at the Ghent Film Festival)

In 2011, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Barry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998.[50] Also wrote the theme for raise the titanic much under rated too

Filmography

Bond films

Barry worked on the soundtracks for the following James Bond films (title song collaborators in brackets):

In addition, a brief excerpt from the song "Born Free" is heard during a sequence in the non-EON Productions Bond film, Casino Royale (1967).

Film and television work

YearFilmDirected bySinglesLatest CD / Digital Release
1959Drumbeat
(TV series theme music)
Stewart Morris
Juke Box Jury
(TV series theme music)
Peter PotterHit And MissEMI / 07243 523073 2 6 / 1997
1960Never Let GoJohn Guillermin
Beat GirlEdmond T. GrévilleCherry Red / ACMEM204CD / 2011
1962Dateline London
(TV series theme music)
Columbia 45-DB 4806: Cutty SarkEMI / 07243 523073 2 6 / 1997
The Amorous PrawnAnthony Kimmins
The L-Shaped RoomBryan Forbes
1963Elizabeth Taylor in LondonSid SmithÉl / ACMEM59CD / ???
From Russia with Love (film)Terence YoungEMI / 72435-80588-2-6 / 2003
1964ZuluCy EndfieldUA 743: Zulu Stamp / Big ShieldEmber Records / NR 5012 / 2010
Man in the Middle (film)Guy Hamilton
Impromptu
(TV series soundtrack)
David Croft
A Jolly Bad FellowDon Chaffey
Séance on a Wet AfternoonBryan ForbesUnited Artists Records UP1060: Seance On A Wet Afternoon / Oublie CaEMI / 07243 523073 2 6 / 1997
GoldfingerGuy HamiltonEMI / 72435-80891-2-7 / 2003
Sophia Loren in RomeSheldon ReynoldsP.E.G. Recordings / PEG023 / 1998
1965Boy and Bicycle
("Onward Christian Spacemen")
Ridley Scott
The Ipcress FileSidney J. FurieSilva Screen / FILMCD 605 / 2002
The Party's OverGuy HamiltonEMI / 07243 523073 2 6 / 1997
Mister MosesRonald Neame
The Knack ...and How to Get ItRichard LesterQuartet Records / QRSCE024 / 2011
The Passion Flower HotelGene GutowskiSony West End / SMK 66175 / ????
The Newcomers (TV series)Colin MorrisFancy Dance
King RatBryan ForbesIntrada / ISC 434 / 2019
Thunderball (film)Terence YoungEMI / 72435-80589-2-5 / 2003
Four in the MorningAnthony SimmonsEmber Records / NR 5029 / 2009
1966The ChaseArthur PennColumbia 4-43544: The Chase (2:44) / Saturday Night Philosopher (2:55)Legacy / 515133 2 / 2004
Born FreeJames HillFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol.7 No. 10 / 2004
The Wrong BoxBryan ForbesIntrada / Special Collection Volume 191 / 2011
VendettaCBS 2390: Vendetta (2:01) / The Danny Scipio Theme (2:45)
The Quiller MemorandumMichael AndersonCBS 2451: Theme From "The Quiller Memorandum" – Wednesday's Child / Sleep Well My DarlingIntrada / Special Collection Volume 201 / 2012
DutchmanAnthony Harvey
1967You Only Live Twice (film)Lewis GilbertEMI / 72435-41418-2-9 / 2003
The WhisperersBryan ForbesRykodisc / RCD 10720 / 1998
1968Boom!Joseph Loseyharkit records / HRKCD 8248 / 2008
PetuliaRichard LesterFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol. 8 No. 20 / 2005
DeadfallBryan ForbesRetrograde Records / FSM-80124-2 / 1997
The Lion in WinterAnthony HarveyLegacy / CK 66133 / 1995
1969The AppointmentSidney LumetFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol. 6 No. 11 / 2003
Midnight CowboyJohn SchlesingerQuartet Records / QR434 / 2021
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)Peter R. HuntEMI / 72435-41419-2-8 / 2003
1970Monte Walsh (1970 film)William A. FrakerFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol. 2 No. 4 / 1999
1971Murphy's WarPeter Yates
The Last Valley (film)James ClavellQuartet Records / QR257 / 2016
WalkaboutNicolas RoegThe Roundtable / PM001CD / 2016
They Might Be GiantsAnthony Harvey
The Persuaders!Val GuestCBS 7469: Theme From 'The Persuaders' (2:10) / The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair (2:55)
Diamonds Are Forever (film)Guy HamiltonEMI / 72435-41420-2-4 / 2003
Mary, Queen of ScotsCharles JarrottQuartet Records / QR504 / 2022
1972Follow Me! (film)Carol ReedKing Records / KICP 1476 / 2010
The Adventurer (TV series)Universal Music Jazz France / 531 340 5 / 2009
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film)William SterlingFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol. 8 No. 20 / 2005
1973A Doll's HousePatrick Garland
Orson Welles Great MysteriesUniversal Music Jazz France / 531 340 5 / 2009
The Glass Menagerie (1973 film)Anthony Harvey
1974Billy (musical)
The Tamarind SeedBlake EdwardsSilva Screen / SILCD1647 / 2021
Born Free (TV series)Leonard Horn, Paul Krasny, Russ Mayberry
The DoveCharles JarrottIntrada / ISC 313 / 2015
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)Guy HamiltonEMI / 72435-41424-2-0 / 2003
1975Love Among the Ruins (film)James Costigan
The Day of the LocustJohn SchlesingerIntrada / ISC 367 / 2016
1976Eleanor and Franklin (miniseries)Daniel Petrie
Robin and MarianRichard LesterPrometheus Records / PCR 522 / 2008
King KongJohn GuillerminFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol. 15 No. 5 / 2012
1977Daniel Petrie
The White BuffaloJ. Lee ThompsonQuartet Records / QR267 / 2017
The War Between the TatesLee Philips
The DeepPeter YatesCasablanca Records USA
Pye Records-Precision Tapes UK /1977
Intrada / Special Collection Volume 143 / 2010
Young Joe, the Forgotten KennedyRichard T. Heffron
First Love (1977 film)La-La Land Records / LLLCD 1243 / 2013
The Gathering (1977 film)Randal Kleiser
1978The BetsyDaniel Petrie
Game of DeathRobert ClouseSilva America / SSD 1154 / 2003
StarcrashLuigi CozziBSX Records / BSXCD 8846 / 2008
1979The Corn Is GreenGeorge Cukor
WillaJoan Darling, Claudio Guzmán
Hanover StreetPeter HyamsVarèse Sarabande / VCL 0309 1090 / 2009
Moonraker (film)Lewis GilbertEMI / 7243 5 41425 2 9 / 2003
The Black HoleGary NelsonIntrada / D001383402 / 2011
1980Night Games (1980 film)Roger VadimSilva America / SSD 1154 / 2003
Raise the Titanic (film)Jerry Jameson
Somewhere in Time (film)Jeannot SzwarcLa-La Land Records / LLLCD 1550 / 2021
Touched by LoveGus Trikonis
Inside MovesRichard Donner
1981The Legend of the Lone RangerWilliam A. FrakerIntrada / ISC 420 / 2018
Body HeatLawrence KasdanFilm Score Monthly / FSM Vol. 15 No. 4 / 2012
The Little Prince and the AviatorJerry Adler
1982HammettWim WendersSilva Screen / SILCD1662 / 2023
Murder by PhoneMichael Anderson
FrancesGraeme CliffordLabel X / LXSACD 1001 / 2005
1983High Road to ChinaBrian G. HuttonBSX Records / BSXCD 8864 / 2010
OctopussyJohn GlenEMI / 7243 5 41450 2 5 / 2003
The Golden SealFrank ZunigaIntrada / Special Collection Volume 89 / 2008
SvengaliAnthony Harvey
1984Mike's MurderJames BridgesPrometheus Records / PCR 521 / 2009
Until SeptemberRichard MarquandKritzerland / KR 20018-9 / 2011
The Cotton ClubFrancis Ford CoppolaGeffen Records / CDGEF 70260 / 1984
1985A View to a KillJohn GlenEMI / 72435-41448-2-0 / 2003
Jagged EdgeRichard MarquandVarèse Sarabande / VCL 0916 1174 / 2016
Out of AfricaSydney PollackMCA Records / MCAD-11311 / 1995
1986A Killing AffairDavid Saperstein
Howard the DuckWillard HuyckIntrada / ISC 426 / 2019
Peggy Sue Got MarriedFrancis Ford CoppolaVarèse Sarabande / VCL 1114 1152 / 2014
The Golden ChildMichael RitchieLa-La Land Records / LLLCD 1180 / 2011
1987The Living DaylightsJohn GlenEMI / 72435-41451-2-4 / 2003
Hearts of FireRichard Marquand
1988MasqueradeBob SwaimQuartet Records / QR326 / 2018

Television film scores

Television themes

Musicals

Other works

Singles

(Excludes co-composed hits, e.g. Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill")

His four highest-charting hits all spent more than 10 weeks in the UK top 50.

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

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  3. Web site: The John Barry Resource: Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" Lawsuit. www.jollinger.com. 13 April 2020.
  4. News: £30,000 damages for composer of 007 theme tune. Neil. Tweedie. 20 March 2001. 13 April 2020. The Telegraph.
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  11. Pete Frame The restless generation: how rock music changed the face of 1950s Britain 0952954079 2007 – Page 414 "Meanwhile, Barry was winning commissions to arrange music for other acts, starting with a young trio on Decca, the unrelated (to him) Barry Sisters. Together, they cut two singles, Tall Paul and Jo Jo The Dog-faced Boy, which had been consecutive American hits for Annette Funicello. Neither excited retail interest – and nor did any of the three singles he made with Larry Page"
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  13. Firth, Simon Music for Pleasure: Essays in the Sociology of Pop Routledge, 1988, p.147
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  24. Shepherd, Fiona. "Album review: Dame Shirley Bassey". The Scotsman 2 November 2009. WebCitation archive.
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  51. News: AICN Animation Double-Header! Moriarty Interviews Brad Bird!! . 27 July 2013 . Ain't It Cool News . 5 November 2004 . Moriarty . https://web.archive.org/web/20070718044035/http://aintitcool.com/node/18753 . 18 July 2007 . Yeah. We worked on it for a little while, and I’m a huge fan of John Barry. But I kind of wanted him to go back to a style that he used in the past, and use that as kind of a starting place. I think he kind of felt like he’d already done that..