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🗓️ 18 November 2016
⏱️ 171 minutes
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Today on the Music Of Bond we look at the iconic James Bond Theme. We delve deep into the history of the tune and look at everything from the origins to the bitter battle for credit over who wrote it.
We also look at the 2001 court case between Monty Norman and The Times, with John Barry appearing as a star witness for the paper. Think you know everything about the James Bond Theme? Bet you don't!
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode two of James Bond Radio's The Music of Bond. My name is Chris Wright and with me as last time and as always will be the superstar Mr. Warren Wingham. How are you doing Warren? |
0:13.0 | I'm great Chris. I'm so excited about today's podcast man. We've got, ah we've got such an episode line up what are we talking about gone what we're |
0:21.9 | going to chat about today well we are talking about the one and only james bond theme but we are |
0:29.4 | going deep deep cover on this one man we really are going deep we are going so deep in fact |
0:36.3 | this podcast i already know it's going to be so long |
0:40.9 | and I'm going to be in big trouble with Mr. Tom's ears because he told me that we had to, we were going to |
0:46.9 | try and keep these down to like an hour or something and this one's pretty much on for about two |
0:51.8 | and a half hours running time, think so you might have just scared |
0:55.7 | a load of people away saying how long it is how can we reel them back in what is gonna keep |
1:00.3 | them listening for two and a half hours why should they sort of stay up and listen to us well i tell |
1:05.1 | you chris this is an absolutely fascinating podcast we've got lined up right i guarantee no matter who's listening and how |
1:14.5 | much you think you know i guarantee that you're going to come away with at least a few things that |
1:19.6 | you didn't know today nice it's yeah i am so excited to see what people think about it we've got |
1:24.9 | controversy we've got new mixes we've got controversy. We've got new mixes. |
1:28.3 | We've got new facts. |
1:30.2 | We've got court cases. |
1:32.7 | And yeah, it's going to be really, really interesting. |
1:36.1 | And we've sort of done this in a bit of a convoluted way because you and I recorded this |
1:41.5 | podcast a couple of weeks ago. |
1:44.1 | And then I was trying to get hold of the court case |
1:47.5 | information between well it wasn't John Barry it was the Times in Montenormand but John |
1:52.9 | Barry was called as a witness on the Times behalf and it was all about the battle of who wrote |
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