Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch: The Spy Who Loved Me composer dies

August 8th, 2012 by

Marvin Hamlisch, composer of many film scores including The Spy Who Loved Me, has died in Los Angeles on Monday following a short illness, according to his family. In addition to Roger Moore’s third outing as James Bond, for which he penned “Nobody Does It Better”, Hamlisch worked on more than 40 film scores including The Sting. […]

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50 Years of Bond Music

February 29th, 2012 by

50 years of James Bond

2012 sees the 50th anniversary of the most enduring film franchise in cinema history.  By the golden anniversary of 1962’s Dr No, there will have been 23 James Bond adventures featuring six 007s, countless Bond villains, hundreds of beautiful Bond girls and almost two dozen of the most instantly recognisable theme songs in cinema history. […]

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The Spy Who Loved Me soundtrack

July 25th, 2010 by

By the time the next instalment of the James Bond series was due to be released, much had changed. Despite the relative success of Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun, 007 was in danger of being overtaken by new, spectacular summer blockbuster films including cinema’s latest phenomenon: Star Wars. With […]

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