The Sound of 007

00:29:43,866 --> 00:29:49,288 <i>♪♪ They'll luster on</i> 498 00:29:49,371 --> 00:29:52,416 My own feeling is that Shirley Bassey should sing them all. 499 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,251 <i>♪♪ Forever, forever... ♪♪</i> 500 00:29:54,335 --> 00:29:58,547 <i>That outrageous, mannered,</i> <i>marvelous, provocative style she has.</i> 501 00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:00,841 <i>She's everything that</i> Bond <i>should be.</i> 502 00:30:00,925 --> 00:30:02,760 <i>Shirley Bassey is</i> Bond. 503 00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:09,517 <i>♪♪ And ever... ♪♪</i> 504 00:30:10,935 --> 00:30:13,562 (MUSIC STOPS) 505 00:30:13,646 --> 00:30:17,733 {\an8}Shirley Bassey was one of the only examples I had growing up 506 00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:22,821 {\an8}of a Black British singer that sang with that huge voice. 507 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:27,493 <i>Without her, I don't think I would</i> <i>have felt like I could do what I do.</i> 508 00:30:27,576 --> 00:30:30,496 <i>There's something about</i> <i>the music of the '60s</i> 509 00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:32,540 <i>that possesses</i> <i>so much feeling.</i> 510 00:30:40,214 --> 00:30:43,634 CAINE: <i>If you think of the '60s</i> <i>as a revolution in England,</i> 511 00:30:43,717 --> 00:30:45,219 <i>it was music-led.</i> 512 00:30:45,302 --> 00:30:48,472 {\an8}Beatles led the rock and roll, and John led the movie music. 513 00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:53,978 John Barry was a major part of the Swinging '60s. 514 00:30:54,061 --> 00:30:56,313 <i>The whole Swinging '60s</i> <i>was amazing.</i> 515 00:30:58,107 --> 00:31:00,776 <i>I was the luckiest guy</i> <i>on the face of the Earth,</i> 516 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:04,697 <i>because I couldn't have been on a more</i> <i>successful kick than the</i> Bond <i>movies.</i> 517 00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:08,742 John Barry was so much a part of the DNA of these films. 518 00:31:08,826 --> 00:31:11,245 That <i>Bond</i> sound is clearly him. 519 00:31:11,328 --> 00:31:15,332 {\an8}Whether it's the guitar, the horns, whether it's any of those things, 520 00:31:15,416 --> 00:31:17,668 {\an8}they were so evocative of that era. 521 00:31:17,751 --> 00:31:19,795 Bond <i>wouldn't be</i> Bond <i>without that.</i> 522 00:31:23,299 --> 00:31:28,846 {\an8}He probably is the first person that took the big band swing brass... 523 00:31:28,929 --> 00:31:31,807 {\an8}<i>...and merged that</i> <i>with the orchestra.</i> 524 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,934 (ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) 525 00:31:39,398 --> 00:31:43,068 JON: <i>If you had had a traditional</i> <i>orchestrally-based score,</i> 526 00:31:43,152 --> 00:31:44,778 <i>it might have been serious,</i> 527 00:31:44,862 --> 00:31:48,699 {\an8}but it wouldn't have had that sassy feel that we got from John Barry, 528 00:31:48,782 --> 00:31:51,285 <i>particularly in the way</i> <i>he wrote for brass.</i> 529 00:31:51,368 --> 00:31:53,037 (ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYING) 530 00:32:00,878 --> 00:32:05,174 <i>That is a significant step forward</i> <i>for film scoring in the 1960s.</i> 531 00:32:05,257 --> 00:32:07,926 {\an8}NEIL: <i>The sex that was on the screen</i> 532 00:32:08,010 --> 00:32:09,678 {\an8}was so there in the music. 533 00:32:10,971 --> 00:32:12,765 <i>This is John Barry</i> <i>in his pomp.</i> 534 00:32:13,974 --> 00:32:15,643 That makes two of us. 535 00:32:15,726 --> 00:32:18,395 {\an8}The muted horn, muted brass 536 00:32:18,479 --> 00:32:21,940 <i>is the signature of</i> Bond. 537 00:32:22,024 --> 00:32:26,278 <i>So it's bold and it's brassy,</i> <i>but there's just a little dampener on it.</i> 538 00:32:26,362 --> 00:32:28,280 It's like a silencer of a gun. 539 00:32:28,364 --> 00:32:29,990 <i>It's the musical equivalent.</i> 540 00:32:35,496 --> 00:32:37,665 ANNA: <i>I love that John Barry</i> <i>grew up in a cinema.</i> 541 00:32:37,748 --> 00:32:40,918 <i>His father ran a cinema,</i> <i>and he also played trumpet,</i> 542 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:44,922 {\an8}so he has an inherent understanding of cinema and music. 543 00:32:45,005 --> 00:32:48,467 {\an8}I think he's one of those geniuses that has an instinct for it. 544 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:52,888 John Barry then ended up emigrating, living in Oyster Bay, on Long Island. 545 00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:56,350 <i>I get the feeling that you could</i> <i>take the lad out of Yorkshire</i> 546 00:32:56,433 --> 00:33:00,020 <i>but you couldn't take the Yorkshire</i> <i>out of the lad, or his music.</i> 547 00:33:00,104 --> 00:33:01,939 I've always had a slight theory 548 00:33:02,022 --> 00:33:04,817 that there's a whiff of the Colliery Band 549 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:06,694 about John Barry's obsession with brass. 550 00:33:06,777 --> 00:33:08,362 (BRASS BAND PLAYING) 551 00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:15,994 When you hear John Barry play, something that I just adore in music 552 00:33:16,078 --> 00:33:20,874 {\an8}is the melancholic, reflective side of music. 553 00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:25,212 And Barry, you can hear that right throughout his scores. 554 00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:27,172 You