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🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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It's time to visit outer space on this week's The Music of Bond.
John Barry returns after Marvin Hamlisch's, The Spy Who Loved Me score to take the reigns on Moonraker. As a film it's often the butt of a joke or two, but what of the score?
Tune in for discussion on the history of the music, a look behind the scenes and a track by track discussion of the original Moonraker soundtrack release.
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Roger Moore and you're listening to James Bond Radio. |
0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to James Bond Radio, the music of Bond. Episode number 22. I'm your co-host, |
0:13.8 | J.W., and as always, I am over-excited to be here with you talking about the music for Moon Raker. |
0:20.5 | You've been asking for it and now you're going to get it to the moon and back. |
0:24.5 | I'm ready to take you around the world one more time. |
0:28.7 | That was a beautiful. |
0:32.7 | Today, as always, I am joined by my dashing co-host Tommy sear say hello Tommy hello mate how's it |
0:42.3 | it's going great man I am just this is it that was beautiful I tell you what mate it's been a while |
0:50.0 | since we've done a soundtrack with you isn't it I'm I'm excited to get some J.B. on the go. |
0:55.9 | And by J.B., of course, I mean John Barron. |
0:57.6 | Yes. |
1:02.1 | You know, it's funny because during the hiatus of this show, a lot of people, you know, |
1:05.0 | were kind of like, oh, why did you have to stop right before Moonraker? |
1:14.3 | I think a lot of people want to hear about this soundtrack. You know, I think it's it's loved by a lot of the JBR family. So it's exciting to, you know, to dig into this one. But Tommy, before we go any further, I've got to address the, |
1:19.8 | you know, the elephant in the room per last episode. Is Dan Romer in or out? And as a result, |
1:25.4 | do I have to eat my shorts? Well, good question. Don't know. |
1:29.7 | Still don't know for sure, obviously. When these things come in, you get you, most of them, |
1:34.7 | they come in and you go, ah, that's bullocks. Or, you know, if it is right, we'll find out |
1:38.9 | eventually. But this one came in and it was, it was, it was very compelling. |
1:45.0 | That's all I'll say, because somebody could obviously lose their job if they found out any details at all, which I know sounds is very a cryptic thing to say. |
1:53.2 | So I won't say anything remotely identifying in any way. |
1:57.2 | But all I can really say is that what they had to say seemed very compelling and made me go, |
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