If Bond music in the '60s was all about the sleaze, in the '70s it was all about the cheese. From John Barry's Vegas of Diamonds Are Forever, through George Martin's funkalicious blaxploitation-esque wah-wah of Live And Let Die, to Marvin Hamlisch's whatever-the-hell-you-describe-it-as version of the Bond theme for The Spy Who Loved Me, well-past-its-sell-by cheddar runs through these scores like massively-collared safari suits run through Roger Moore's wardrobe.
So get out the cream crackers, raise a solitary eyebrow to the heavens and suck your cheeks in as you kiss a series of ladies in a horrifically unwatchable fashion, because it's time to...
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SATURDAY PLAYLIST #5:
JAMES BOND IN THE '70s
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Missed a trick here, one of the little joys of life is replacing the word "Goldfinger" with "Moonraker" when singing the Shirley Bassey number...
ReplyDelete"MOONRAKER, (ba ba baaaaa), he's the man, the man with the midas touch.."
"...such an MOONRAKER, (ba ba baaaa) beckons you to enter his web of sin"
etc.