NSNA theme song revealed
Napoleon Plural
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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
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
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Roger Moore 1927-2017
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Yup, he's the guilty man.
Bland, bland, bland !!!
Thanks Nap.
http://home.ican.net/~sforsyth/Music/NeverSayNeverAgain.mp3
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.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
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.
Roger Moore 1927-2017