The Music Of Bond #008: Thunderball Soundtrack Review
James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews & Interviews!
Tom & Chris
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2017
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
The Music of Bond is back with our Thunderball soundtrack review. This week we talk about the history of the score, the last minute switch from the original theme Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang to Tom Jones' Thunderball. We discuss favourite tunes and go through the original soundtrack release track by track. Is it a step up from Goldfinger? Does it live up to the hype of the biggest Bond of all? Find out on this week's Music of Bond.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Roger Moore, and you're listening to James Bond Radio. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello and welcome to episode eight of James Bond Radio's The Music of Bond. |
| 0:12.0 | My name's Tom Sears, and today I'm joined by the other fellow, Mr. John Williams. How you doing, |
| 0:17.6 | buddy? I'm never better, man. Thrill to be here. So excited to be back, |
| 0:22.9 | talking about the biggest bond of all. Absolutely. Now, before we get started, I would like some |
| 0:27.5 | extra brownie points this week, because as you might be audible in my voice, is it's very, very early |
| 0:34.1 | where I am here in Bangkok. It's just gone to 6 o'clock in the morning because |
| 0:37.8 | this was the only time we could make work because I'm off on my holidays. So can I get some |
| 0:42.0 | extra sympathy, love and attention, please? |
| 0:45.7 | Absolutely. I'll be honest with you. I wish the viewers could see what I see right now because |
| 0:49.1 | you're looking good. Looking tight, looking strong, looking firm. It's good. |
| 0:53.8 | You look like the man is about to go on firm. It's good. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:54.4 | You look like the man who's about to go on a tour of Southeast Asia. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:58.5 | Or like a man who just got back from South Southeast Asia. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, I've got my Jim Jams on and everything. |
| 1:04.0 | It's great, really, really prepared for it. |
| 1:05.8 | Good stuff. |
| 1:06.8 | So how did you feel about Goldfinger, man? How did you feel that episode went down? |
| 1:11.6 | I thought it was a bit of a belt to myself. |
| 1:14.9 | I did too. |
| 1:15.4 | It was so much fun. |
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