NSNA theme song revealed

Napoleon Plural

The always reliable mi6.co.uk have uncovered an amazing tale about the original theme song for Never Say Never Again, vetoed by composer Michel Legrand, who had first dibs on the song (though did he actually write the tune? I can't recall).

It's another depressing anecdote about the troubled background of this awfully disappointing film, as anyone who's read The Battle for Bond will agree.

I've not listened to the song yet, I'm at work:


http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=6157

Dominic Greene

IMO this theme is way better than the original theme, It sound's more like a 'proper' Bond song, Nice find

The Cat

Another publicity stunt gathering enough steam. Great...

Barbel

Napoleon Plural wrote:

composer Michel Legrand, who had first dibs on the song (though did he actually write the tune? I can't recall).

Yup, he's the guilty man.

lotus

The Cat wrote:

Another publicity stunt gathering enough steam. Great...

well i think the song is crap

Sir Miles

Napoleon Plural wrote:

The always reliable mi6.co.uk have uncovered an amazing tale about the original theme song for Never Say Never Again,

Bland, bland, bland !!!

Strangeways

Like it a lot!
Thanks Nap.

http://home.ican.net/~sforsyth/Music/NeverSayNeverAgain.mp3

SeanConnery007

I think its a fantastic song - far classier, more Bondian and far more pleasing than Legrand's Lani Hall track. Another disappointing musical rejection in the Bond canon.

Napoleon Plural

The Cat wrote:

Another publicity stunt gathering enough steam. Great...

Another cryptic comment from The Cat, suggesting he knows more than he's letting on...

The song's quite catchy; don't see how it can be a publicity stunt unless they communicated with the singer through ouiji board. Or was it a stunt at the time, like Pulp doing Tomorrow Never Dies and getting turned down?

However, as the opening of NSNA is a snoozer rather than the action packed joyous opening of the Moore films at the time, this song wouldn't have fitted it no well. (I suppose you could have it playing over the credits like the Lani Hall one, though that wouldn't sound too great.) When you had stunts opening the films like in the Moore era you had these lush, sleepy ballads whereas in the earlier years you had crash bang wallop songs like GF, TB, OHMSS, TMWTGG and even the titles song of FRWL, an exception being YOLT which does make the film very very soporific, a fault of its first half hour.

Loeffelholz

Napoleon Plural wrote:

However, as the opening of NSNA is a snoozer rather than the action packed joyous opening of the Moore films at the time

The Cat

Napoleon Plural wrote:

The song's quite catchy; don't see how it can be a publicity stunt...

You don't have to use your fantasy if you read the original version of the article:

Phyllis sadly took her own life in the early nineties. The year before she died, she called me late one night and told me she felt that "Never Say Never Again" was "her best and favorite recording." I have just now made the song available on the Internet (itunes, amazon, emusic, rhapsody, etc.) on an album of some of my early songs.

Focus on the last sentence. This is about as much of a rejected song as Pulp, Alice Cooper or the rest of the wannabes. Which means it's not.

Napoleon Plural

Ah, okay that bit is a publicity stunt. Guess Mr Legrand isn't around to give his side of it. Fair enough.

The Cat

Now why on Earth should he be knowing about this?