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For the uninitiated, yet curious, John Barry was arguably Britain's best-known composer of film music. He emerged at a time when the score of a movie was seldom recorded for the album market, and when the musical arranger, for all his importance to the end product, was a comparatively anonymous part of the film-making process.
John Barry, OBE (3 November 1933 - 30 January 2011), born John Barry Prendergast in York, UK is considered one of the "Big Four" of late 20th century film composers (the others being John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and Henry Mancini). His family was in the cinema business, but it was during his National Service that he began performing as a musician.
ScoreCues presents a carefully crafted selection of essential works by English composer, John Barry (1933-2011). Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more gr...
Jan 31, 2011 · John Barry, the Academy Award-winning film composer whose idiosyncratic and iconic compositions over the course of a lifetime in the movies -- including some of the best known James Bond music and ...
Feb 13, 2008 · Great film music by John Barry. Buy the CD's of John Barry!
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Feb 4, 2011 · Composer John Barry, who wrote the scores for 11 Bond films, as well as the theme songs for Goldfinger and Thunderball, died Sunday.He was 77. Barry also scored about 100 films, winning Oscars for ...
Plaque at the Pavilion Hotel, Main Street, Fulford, York YO10 4PJ. Composer. John Barry Prendergast was born in York 1933 and died in New York in 2011. He was one of the best known film music composers of the late twentieth century composing James Bond film scores and winning Academy awards for Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves.
