Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
John Barry
Themeology: The Best of John Barry
(Columbia, 1997)
Film and TV magic that’s not just for dinner parties.
Surely one of the most anthologised artists ever, this late-’90s Barry best of has stayed near the top of my personal heap of as yet unfiled CDs for over ten years. Not just for its unusual mix of his TV themes, soundtrack work and oddities like the gorgeous, quivering Girl With The Sun In Her Hair (from a 1968 Sunsilk shampoo advert) but because these extraordinary, quirky pieces have proved essential in all manner of social situations, particularly at this time of year. Barry’s Bond soundtracks are a middle class dinner party staple, of course, and they are well represented here from Shirley Bassey chewing her way through Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever and Matt Monro’s swooning From Russia With Love to the imposing Thunderball and the shrill drama of 007 with its nerve-shredding piccolo flourish. I can wholeheartedly recommend the ominous, thrilling swell of Space March (Capsule In Space) from You Only Live Twice as the prefect accompaniment to slightly tipsy, suspense-filled Jenga on Christmas Day (just not too near the speakers; all that vibrato might be construed as cheating), and the wistful Midnight Cowboy to lull you through the drunken late afternoon. Should the chilling Persuaders Theme or idiosyncratic jazzy Beat For The Beatniks (from Never Let Go) make you unpopular with the family, you can always skip on to his later, lusher orchestral works like Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves’ John Dunbar Theme.
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 11/12/2008
Further Listening
Ennio Morricone - At The Movies (Camden, 2000)
Cat Stevens - Harold and Maude S/T (Vinyl Films, 2008)
John Willams - Greatest Hits 1969-1999 (Sony Classical, 1999)
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