British composer John Barry — who is being honored with the Ghent Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement award and whose music will be performed live at the fest Oct. 23 — reinvented the action movie ...

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 the ...

The first LP I ever bought was the soundtrack to the film Born Free. The music was composed by John Barry, who died yesterday in New York at the age of 77, following a heart attack. Barry had already ...

Very few composers can be said to have created a new style of film music,” says David Arnold. “John Barry single-handedly created the spy genre.” Arnold, who recently completed scoring “Quantum of ...

Yet when the album Ready When You Are, J.B. appeared in 1970, its liner notes said “he’s invisible most of the time.” Although he had recently appeared briefly in the film Deadfall, Barry was ...

LONDON (AP) — Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including “You Only Live Twice” and “Goldfinger” but couldn’t persuade a jury that he composed ...

Music composer John Barry, best known for his work on "Born Free," "Out of Africa" and the James Bond films, died at 77. EPA LONDON — Composer John Barry, who won five Oscars for his film work but was ...

John Barry’ death was reported by Jon Burlingame in Variety on Monday, Jan. 31 as dying of a heart attack on Sunday, Jan. 30 at his home in Oyster Bay. He is credited with living in Centre Island, ...

John Barry was a composer of great talent. He emerged on the musical scene with his group, the John Barry 7. Between 1962 and 1992, John Barry underwent a musical transformation. He found a voice ...

Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice" and "Goldfinger" and developed the twanging guitar riff in the suave spy's ...