Did he produce the title track Live and Let Die? Not sure, as of course he did the soundtrack album, but then again Macca was with Wings then and generally was shying away from heading back to Martin and the Beatle sound.
It's amazing how each Beatle album has a different sound, they really evolved. Martin was the one who suggested that Please Please Me should be sped up from the relatively laid back Roy Orbison number it was originally devised as, and also suggested She Loves You should open with the bold chorus, get straight to it. But he was also integral to getting them signed in the first place, as he took to them as people.
He also did some Goons stuff, and the song Goodness Gracious Me with Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren.
I don't think anyone had a bad word to say about him. Maybe John Lennon when he was in one of his scorched earth moods, but he later recanted.
I do like his LALD soundtrack. It's not John Barry, but Barry wouldn't have been right for that film maybe. Then again, he did Midnight Cowboy so you never know.
When Barry died, Martin was asked for his tribute and applauded him for writing FRWL. But of course, while he did the soundtrack, he didn't write the song, that was Lionel Bart. It would be like my saying how great Sir George was for writing the song Live and Let Die!
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Martin did in fact produce the LALD tune itself. The score of that film is brilliant, IMO.
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RIP Sir George, one of the four links (along with McCartney, Ringo's wife and the Goldfinger quote) between the most influential pop/rock band of all time and the most influential film series of all time. -{
Sad news indeed. Sir George Martin was a musical genius, and by all accounts a genuinely nice guy. The score for LALD is one the best in my opinion. RIP. -{
Very sad news although given his advanced years, not totally unexpected. He is as much responsible for the legend of the film Bond as anyone out there.
Ken Adam belongs on a very short list of people who truly defined what Bond films became. Fleming, Broccoli, Saltzman, Young, Maibaum, Connery, Adam, Barry -- that is my Mount Rushmore. It's poignant that among this group only Sir Sean is still with us.
RIP, Ken Adam. -{
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Some true geniuses making their exit this week
Rest in peace.
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Unbelievably sad news. I'd always hoped to reunite him with the John Stears created FRWL/Goldfinger Mauser Broomhandle prop which had graced his office/work station at Pinewood Studios during the late 1960's-1970's. His talents will be sorely missed but his legacy will Never Die -{
The Bond films would not have been the same without him. Nothing can compare with seeing, say, YOLT on the big screen when the volcano set is first revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnaorqo6krg - it just isn't the same at home. Ditto for TSWLM and the interior of the tanker. The audience gave a collective WTF? that CGI just doesn't get.
RIP Sir Ken.
Can't express how sad I am to have just heard this on the 10pm news but I'm so glad I had an opportunity to once meet the great man and shake his hand.
2 inspirational talents gone this week...RIP Sir Ken
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My brother Mike has put it splendidly, with regard to the late Sir George Martin and Sir Ken Adam: Sound and Vision.
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My brother Mike has put it splendidly, with regard to the late Sir George Martin and Sir Ken Adam: Sound and Vision.
-{ which evokes another late lamented legend...
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Sad to hear of the death of Bond Production Designer Sir Ken Adam at the ripe old age of 95. He made celluloid dreams take form and become reality in the Bond films that he was involved with. -{
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Ken Adam - along with John Barry - are the two absolute geniuses that hugely contribute to my love of the films. Sad to hear Ken's gone, but he had an incredible innings!! -{
Yes. It's telling that some US state officials wondered how on earth EON got permission to film inside Fort Knox. While it's true that FRWL and OHMSS did not benefit from Adam's work, those were untypical of the Bond movies at the time. Adam lent everything a splendour, as well as a dark edge, a bit Fritz Lang.
I mean, he didn't get much to play with on DAF, did he? But he still managed to make Blofeld's Willard Whyte penthouse suite look stunning. It gleams.
He also did Dr Strangelove of course, and The Madness of King George III, I believe.
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It's amazing how each Beatle album has a different sound, they really evolved. Martin was the one who suggested that Please Please Me should be sped up from the relatively laid back Roy Orbison number it was originally devised as, and also suggested She Loves You should open with the bold chorus, get straight to it. But he was also integral to getting them signed in the first place, as he took to them as people.
He also did some Goons stuff, and the song Goodness Gracious Me with Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren.
I don't think anyone had a bad word to say about him. Maybe John Lennon when he was in one of his scorched earth moods, but he later recanted.
I do like his LALD soundtrack. It's not John Barry, but Barry wouldn't have been right for that film maybe. Then again, he did Midnight Cowboy so you never know.
When Barry died, Martin was asked for his tribute and applauded him for writing FRWL. But of course, while he did the soundtrack, he didn't write the song, that was Lionel Bart. It would be like my saying how great Sir George was for writing the song Live and Let Die!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
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"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
RIP Sir Ken Adam and Sir George Martin! -{
RIP Mr Adam, a prime example of pure natural talent
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Rest in peace.
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RIP to them both.
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RIP Sir Ken.
2 inspirational talents gone this week...RIP Sir Ken
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
-{ which evokes another late lamented legend...
"Better make that two."
Talking of long-living film-makers, Doug Slocombe who was cinematographer on the Indiana Jones trilogy died not long ago at the age of 103!
I mean, he didn't get much to play with on DAF, did he? But he still managed to make Blofeld's Willard Whyte penthouse suite look stunning. It gleams.
He also did Dr Strangelove of course, and The Madness of King George III, I believe.
What was his last Bond film? Was it Moonraker?
Roger Moore 1927-2017