Yeah, 1965's "Thunderball." That's what should close Wednesday's show. Duran Duran - best bond song EVER - rightfully take their place. James Bond themes had tried - and failed - to top the UK's Official Singles Chart for almost 53 years before Sam Smith's success with 'Writing's on the Wall'. 'Doctor No' (James Bond Theme) (2:44) 'From Russia With Love' (3:33) 'Goldfinger' (2:46. Iconic UK pop-rock act Duran Duran were the band behind the theme song for the 1985 James Bond film, A View To Kill so their opinion of who should be picked. Previously, two Bond themes had peaked at No.2 in the UK: Duran Duran's 'A View to a Kill' - the only US No.1 Bond theme to date - in 1985 and Adele's 'Skyfall' in 2012. The album features an orchestral version of Duran Duran's 'A View to a Kill'. The song, which shared its title with the 1985 film, came top ahead of Shirley Bassey's 'Goldfinger' and 'Live and Let Die' by Paul McCartney & Wings in the Gigwise survey. Duran Duran wrote it together with John Barry and recorded it at Maison Rouge Studio and CTS Studio in London with a 60-piece orchestra. But the vibe is still pure Bond, with the band taking on the role of overdressed English dandies lookin' for love in subtropical places - hopping islands on the trail of babes 'n' bombs, trying to catch the bad guys before they use the missing NATO nukes to blast Miami into that great gig in the sky. The Themes From All 15 Bond Films is a cover song compilation album, released in Europe by Object Enterprises during 1988. Duran Duran's theme tune for the James Bond film A View To Kill has been voted the best ever by fans. Those videos also riff on "Indiana Jones," "Apocalypse Now" and other movies. Substitute state-of-the-art-circa-1982 electronic instruments for Bond's Q-supplied gadgets, drop the whole mess into an exotic faraway place and, presto, you have Duran Duran's still-definitive videos for "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf." Cary's Booth Amphitheatre should do that for Wednesday's Duran Duran show, pairing the band with a James Bond flick, and not 1985's "A View To a Kill" (even though Duran Duran did that film's title song), but one of the 1960s-vintage Cold War classics starring Sean Connery.ĭuran Duran, you see, is pop music's answer to James Bond - British, stylish, slightly ridiculous and utterly committed to old-school roguish behavior. A few venues around here do movie/music combo bills - a band plays followed by a screening of a thematically appropriate film.
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