Discography
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Out of Africa
1985
The Last Valley (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2026
Howard The Duck (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2022
Mary, Queen Of Scots (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2020
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
Great Movie Sounds of John Barry
2016
Somewhere In Time (Original Motion Picture)
2016
Body Heat
2014
The Bee's Knees (The EMI Years 1957 - 1962)
2011
The Third Man - Cinema Gala
2010
The Specialist Original Motion Picture Score
2009
My Life: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2009
The EMI Years - Volume 1 (1957-60)
2009
Born Free (Original Motion Picture Score)
2008
The EMI Years - Volume 2 (1961)
2008
Mercury Rising (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2008
The Very Best Of John Barry (The Polydor Years)
2006
King Kong (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2005
The Chase
2004
Dances With Wolves - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2004
Enigma - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2002
The Ultimate John Barry
2001
Best Of
1999
Ready When You Are, J.B.
1998
Hit And Miss
1997
Moviola II: Action And Adventure
1995
The EMI Years - Volume 3 (1962-1964)
1995
The Scarlet Letter Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1995
Across The Sea Of Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1995
Moviola
1992
Great Film And TV Hits
1991
Beat Girl / Stringbeat
1990
The Living Daylights
1987
A View to a Kill
1985
Octopussy
1983
Stringbeat
1983
Moonraker
1979
The Music Of John Barry
1976
The Man With the Golden Gun
1974
Diamonds Are Forever
1972
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
John Barry Conducts His Greatest Movie Hits
1968
The Lion In Winter
1968
You Only Live Twice
1967
The Quiller Memorandum (Original Sound Track Recording)
1967
Thunderball
1965
Goldfinger
1964
From Russia With Love
1963
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John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 - 30 January 2011) was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987. He wrote the scores to the award winning films Midnight Cowboy, Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999 he received an OBE from Buckingham Palace for services to music. Born in York, North Riding of Yorkshire, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his National Service in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician having learned to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. This started a successful association between Barry and the James Bond films which lasted for 25 years.
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He received awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for Born Free, and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won a BAFTA Award), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in (2004) alongside Don Black. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2005. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there for the remainder of his life until his death in 2011.
John Barry in brief
- How many John Barry releases are on Riffiter?
- 48 releases are catalogued, spanning 1963 to 2026.
- When was John Barry formed?
- John Barry formed in 1959, in York, England.
- What is the most recent John Barry release on Riffiter?
- The Last Valley (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), released in 2026.