Title: You Only Live Once: The Third of the Non-Barry Bonds
Product review: "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) attempted to harden Roger Moore's image as 007, and again a change in music was used to help refocus the image of James Bond. Broadway wizard Marvin Hamlisch was brought in, again primarily to produce a hit title. Carole Bayer Sager wrote the lyrics, Hamlisch the music and Carly Simon performed what became one of that year's hit songs and one of the best title songs of the Bond series. Alas, the score by Hamlisch left much to be desired. Marvin Hamlisch was not new to the craft of film scoring. After all he had done well with "The Sting" and "The Way We Were." But, at best, his efforts in "The Spy Who Loved Me" were trendy parodies of John Barry motifs. Note especially what happened in the pre-title, "Bond '77" (compare it with Barry's theme for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and even the pre-title music for "A View to a Kill").
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