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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re listening to the next James Bond film, Moonraker!
With the success of Star Wars and science fiction at the box office, it was decided that Bond in Space was a thing that needed to happen next. This campy Moore adventure (I’m looking at you double-talking pigeon) wasn’t critically well received, but audiences loved it enough that it was the highest-grossing Bond film into the 1990s.
While other artists ultimately passed on performing the main theme, Shirley Bassey returned to record her final Bond song just weeks before the film’s release. Following its debut, Bassey never promoted the track and seldom performs it live. The score itself was a departure from the typical John Barry fare as the jazzy brass of earlier Bond films gave way to slow strings.
The soundtrack was recorded in April 1979, ahead of the film’s June release. My 1979 US pressing is all right, but I’m ready for an expanded version on vinyl to match up with the 45th anniversary version that contains previously unreleased music.
12. Moonraker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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