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Much anticipation, then, for the music… French composer Eric Serra oversaw the score, but this song was penned by U2’s Bono and The Edge. There was quite a gap between Timothy Dalton’s last outing as 007 and this, Pierce Brosnan’s debut in the role.
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Composer David Arnold made his Bond debut with the score for this film and wrote an original song with Don Black and David McAlmont, but ‘Surrender’ was relegated to the end credits, despite being a far superior song. Sheryl Crow wrote this with producer Mitchell Froom and it’s… alright, if a bit lightweight.
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Stanford professors Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold, experts in cultural studies and musicology, set out to understand what Kronengold describes as “this very strange musical phenomenon”-a canon of theme songs-“that basically doesn’t change for fifty years.” The James Bond Songs, the resulting book published in September, puts the songs in the context of their times and asks why modern performers strive to replicate “this thing from 1964 that already was kind of outdated then.” But today, no Bond film would feel complete without one of the distinctive openings. Moviegoers in 1964 might’ve been perplexed as Shirley Bassey belted out the title track over a surreal credit sequence. With that, the screen goes black, the orchestra kicks in, and we witness the birth of something historic: the Bond song. “Shocking,” Sean Connery deadpans in the opening scenes of Goldfinger, after electrocuting a would-be assassin.