Barry Goes East: The Sound of You Only Live Twice - Deep Dive

In this episode of Music of Bond, we journey to the Far East and dive deep into the lush, mysterious, and unforgettable score of You Only Live Twice. John Barry delivers one of his most sweeping and romantic compositions, blending bold orchestration with delicate Japanese musical influences.

From the haunting beauty of Nancy Sinatra’s iconic title song to the tension-filled action cues that underscore Bond’s most dangerous mission yet, we explore how this score redefined the sound of 007.

Join us as we unpack the music, the moments, and the magic behind one of the most sonically rich entries in the Bond canon.

But first Elvis...EPIC.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to the Music of Bobby, the James Bobby Podcast. From John Barry to Han Zimmer and every note in between. Join us for an in-depth and at times provocative conversation about the best in 007 sounds. From Oscar winning favorites to guilty pledges.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

Hello and welcome to Music of Bond. For the love of music, for the love of Bond. We are back with Now that we've started the show with some of my beautiful singing of the strings, uh I think it's fair to say that this is going to be an emotional trip we're going on today because this is this one is as heavy as it gets. I am JW and I am joined by my co-host, as always, Chris Wood. Chris, how goes it? Goes it well. How goes it, you? Man, I'm gonna tell you something, and we're just gonna dive right into this. We're gonna go off topic right out of the gate. Last night I finally got to see Elvis Epic in IMAX. Damn. So did we it is I don't know what to say about that. That is a reason to live. I texted a buddy of mine afterwards and I said, my life is now broken into two parts pre-Elvis Epic and post-Elvis Epic. I mean, it's been out like almost a week and took Nellie and took Sydney, and the theater was almost full, and people were clapping, dancing, cheering, smiling. I mean, it was it was it was phenomenal. It blew my mind.

SPEAKER_05 1:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:56

So I don't if you haven't seen it, go find it somehow and watch it because it's just I don't know. I just it it it healed my soul in ways that only music can do, and it did it to the highest caliber. So what are your what are your thoughts on your trip with I believe there was a family affair as well?

SPEAKER_05 2:22

It was, yeah. We took Erin's mum. Yeah, it was it was unbelievable. Yeah, the how they spliced the rehearsal footage in with the live stuff, footage we've never seen, different angles as well from the Vegas performances, just uh unbelievable, unbelievable. And yeah, and you have to see it in IMAX.

SPEAKER_04 2:41

I I sadly I think by the time this drops, it might not be, but it's been a massive success. And Baz was on the Elvis channel, which I've got on all the time here in the desert, and I was listening to it this morning, and he said that I guess it's outsold Taylor Swift's IMAX movie. Oh, really? Wow. Globally been that much of a hit. And they talked about sort of the emotional, excuse me, emotional. I'm emotional. They talked about the multi-generational effect that it's having, that it's the grandmother, the mother, the daughter. Yeah, yeah. And we took Sydney, she's never been to anything like that. And I was kind of like looking over, she was asking a ton of questions. Thank God Nellie was sitting between us.

SPEAKER_05 3:35

Does she know Elvis?

SPEAKER_04 3:36

Oh, she does because I play it all the time.

unknown 3:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:40

And she's strategic in the sense that when she wants to like, you know, get something bought for her, you know, her Poca Toka life or whatever the hell it is on the iPad. She has this thing where she always tells me that I'm uh better looking than Elvis. And you know what, Chris? Now let me tell you, works every time. Yeah, I bet it does. Here's my credit card. I mean, even though she's nine, I finally got to hear it. So I looked over at her. She's got a mouthful of high chews. She's sucking on this gigantic, you know, uh blueberry coke, icy. And between the sugar rush and that the music, her knee was bouncing up and down, and you know, she was so into it. It was amazing.

SPEAKER_05 4:26

That's so nice to hear.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

It really is. And you know, Baz deserves every award for editing, story. The sound is absolutely spectacular.

SPEAKER_05 4:41

Oh, it is, it really is. And just seeing, you know, that seeing Elvis in that quality on that large of a screen, it almost feels like he's still with us. He doesn't feel like a legend of old. He feels like he's someone that could be around today.

SPEAKER_04 4:55

Yeah, totally. I when we saw you two at the spear, Bono made some comment. I hope I'm quoting it right. He said that Elvis is alive and we're dead.

SPEAKER_05 5:06

That's what something, something to that effect.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

And I just it honestly, man, it just it it healed my soul. I just was like, this is I needed this. And although they don't really lean into it too much, but it it addresses, I think, some issues that are really relevant today. His comments about being a performer and keeping his opinions to himself, and he's just an entertainer, showing that that clip, which I think is a masterclass in you know, people in the entertainment industry who perhaps aren't in touch with reality, giving us their opinions. Yeah. Um then it if you you know the footage right after that what he said was echoing. It was on a loop, echoing, and I just thought, holy shit.

SPEAKER_05 5:55

And then he goes remixing going on, weren't there? Some of the some of the tunes had a bit of a a remix going on with some psychedelic sounds over them, and then they linked into other tunes. Incredible how he did that.

SPEAKER_04 6:06

Yeah. In in the ghetto, and then by the time he gets to walk a mile in my shoes, and that speech about you know, you don't know what someone's going through until you've walked in their shoes and looked through their eyes. So it was just it was such a beautiful thing. And Chris, I gotta admit, about halfway through it, I was like, I'm so happy we're recording today because I gotta, I got I got to poke Saladani.

SPEAKER_05 6:35

It is the is the highlight of the movie. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:38

I mean that like I I was I was hooting, you know, hollering, I guess, as a southern boy uh does, uh, usually at save for live concerts, not movie theaters. Um it it's probably one of the greatest live moments I've ever witnessed in my entire life.

SPEAKER_05 7:02

That yeah, it was it was phenomenal.

SPEAKER_04 7:05

Phenomenal. And I I mean I've said it for years that if I could go back in time and witness a concert, you know. I mean, you think about that. Jimi Hendrix, your band, the Beatles, um, you know, there's so many gigs you want to go back and witness. I've said for years that the first two years, 69 and 70, of the Vegas shows would be up there for me, is where I'd want to go back. And that footage from those specific shows where he's in the white, yeah, I mean, he can't be touched.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

I know, and the montage of all the girls leaning over and kissing him.

SPEAKER_04 7:51

That was outrageous. I I was I was reading that, you know, basically, you know, Tom Parker, Colonel Parker, you know, sort of w wanted to whitewash his image. And I loved how now in today's society and today's world, we can see all of that. I mean, he was pretending to smoke a joint, was talking about morphine, at one point deep throats, the mic, you know. Like Yeah, I know. Like just he was walking around just like I guess this is gonna be kind of crude, but like just like tongue and women.

SPEAKER_05 8:24

I was like, what the I know this is insane. At one stage, he he does a lap at the front of the he goes down into the crowd and walks the whole length of the stage, and he's getting absolutely ambushed from every single angle, and then he makes it back on stage with another song. It's just unbelievable. So, so good.

SPEAKER_04 8:42

So good. But hang on, I gotta finish this thought because I'm watching this and I'm watching it, and I'm about halfway through it, and I'm like, god damn it, I'm gonna bring this up again. That is American swagger. I mean, it's uh it's it's it's like Liam, you know, that is uh 100% English, you know. Like you can't, you know, uh an American guy trying to be Liam looks like an idiot. You know, I love Japan. Had one of the best trips of my life, Japan. A Japanese guy pretending to be Elvis, you look like an idiot. It's actually quite a good show, I'm sure, but man, the swagger and the sex appeal and the soul, like God.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

So so good.

SPEAKER_04 9:33

He was on fire, man. He was so I had to talk to you about it because that is just the ultimate personified, and I can't remember it was either Springsteen or Dylan, you know, quote about Elvis, I think sums really up everything. They said, you know, there wasn't shit before Elvis. And I think that that really freed up, you know, everyone to you know, the Beatles grow the hair out and you know let it rip in the cavern or in those nightclubs in Germany, right? I mean Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:14

Did you see as well in in the Elvis dock there was a few little uh Beatles signs popping up, almost like it was the impending Beatlemania wave that was coming for him. But he only touched on it in like one scene, just enough to let people know, listen, they're on their way. But yeah, it was it was superb. And what I liked about it as well is they got to the Vegas years in good time. They didn't repeat the whole story. It was like his a little bit, his war, his Elvis getting drafted, and now we're at Vegas. Brilliant.

SPEAKER_04 10:42

Yeah, it gives you kind of I don't want to say cliff notes, because that I don't know. It it it it gives you a frame of reference, it sort of builds into you know the re especially the rehearsals, his clothes, man. I mean, they that looks wild by today's standards, but when he's in the Burbank studio in that like silk paisley pink and blue shirt, that's the coolest looking mofo to ever walk the earth, you know?

SPEAKER_05 11:10

And I like him as well when he's rather than the the quiff sort of slick back, you know, when it's gone over his face, he's in rehearsal modes.

SPEAKER_04 11:17

I told Nelly that as soon as we left. I was like, it's like once his hair comes undone and it's kind of pushed forward.

SPEAKER_05 11:23

That's much better.

SPEAKER_04 11:24

Much better.

SPEAKER_05 11:25

Yeah, yeah. So so cool. And then when you see the burn in love with his hair slicked back and the massive aviators, then he looks a little bit Elvis impersonatory. Do you know what I mean? But when it's slick forward, no glasses on, he looks at Dog's bollocks.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

Yeah, I it's it's I mean, I'm ripping this off just having heard it from Baz talk about it this morning. You know, he it got to a point where Elvis turned into a Halloween costume. Yeah. And he kind of wanted to remind people of you know that isn't the case. Yeah. Like this guy so much so much going on. It was just beautiful, man. So if you're listening to this and you didn't see it, oh man, I'm sorry. But hopefully you'll be able to see it in some way. If you have heard it, would love to know your comments. Would love to hear Aaron's mom if she's out there listening. Let's hear your thoughts. Would love to read your review.

SPEAKER_05 12:27

Um Burn in Love. That was what I was gonna mention. The Burn in Love. On that film, you see the first ever live performance of Burn in Love. And there's a there's a point there where Elvis realizes they haven't actually written an ending for it. So he basically turns to the drummer and says, You just you just end it. And it ends up being this kind of animal Keith Moon huge drum solo to end Burn in Love. It's so, so cool. So cool.

SPEAKER_04 12:54

Epic. Literally, yeah, little little sister. When he after he walks through the crowd and he just grabs a microphone and the stool. Oh you know, okay, we gotta talk about this. One, I think Elvis is a massly underrated guitar player. He's he's a great guitar player, man.

SPEAKER_05 13:13

Yeah, but he's really good rhythm guitar, those chords are like perfect all the way through. Not a lot of lead, but the rhythm is uh is effortless, isn't it?

SPEAKER_04 13:23

And you don't need any lead when you got Burton. I mean, James Burton. You ain't shit when you're playing next to James Burton. That guy, I bet you anything. If we did a poll right now from Johnny Maher to Keith Moon, who's your guy, I bet you his name comes up the most.

SPEAKER_05 13:42

Oh, definitely, definitely. Yeah, and so effortless, he just stands there, doesn't he barely moves, and his fingers do all the work. Unbelievable. And just always smiling. Yeah, and you see him loosen up through the ages because he starts off with kind of a short hairdo, and then as those years progress, they all become pretty hairy, don't they?

SPEAKER_04 14:04

Yeah, exactly. A little bit pastier, a little bit uh hairier. You can see where the effects of like the tail end of the 70s, you know, what the 70s did to everyone. Three, I mean, he did in eight, his final eight years from his his first Vegas residency, in eight years before his death, he did a over eleven hundred shows.

SPEAKER_05 14:29

That's ridiculous, isn't it? It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Fuck.

SPEAKER_05 14:33

I mean, that's gotta put well, I mean, look how he ended, but it's gotta put some mileage on you pushing your body that far because 100% he gets everything in those performances. I mean, can you imagine three shows a day? Well, there's a scene, isn't there, where he walks off stage and he I think he goes into a lift and he turns around and he just looks absolutely knackered. Knackered and he says, doesn't he, I give everything and I lose four pounds a show. Yeah you think, Jesus, it's no wonder.

SPEAKER_04 15:05

No wonder he's taking the pills. And to top it all off, like two weeks ago, Priscilla, his wife, did a little little show here in Palm Springs. We got tickets, and she brought along slides and home movies and just talked about there was like a moderator and just talked about Elvis and got her her Elvis and Me book signed. And so I've had just this tremendous Elvis run here these last two weeks. But oh, I had to lead with that, man. And speaking of years, Chris, we've just surpassed our two-year anniversary. So have we?

SPEAKER_05 15:42

Oh, brilliant. Yeah, fantastic.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

Two years brilliant. And I think, you know, as opposed to patting ourselves on the back, we want to thank everyone who's tuned in. Um I'm always amazed at the numbers of downloads. And I can safely say now that I host a multitude of podcasts, that your Instagram followers do not in any way, your numbers do not in any way reflect your podcast numbers. Um, I'm blown away. So we want to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts. We are forever indebted to all your support over the years.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 16:27

Couldn't say it better to myself. So, and lastly, Chris, I I heard you just did an episode of this great knives out podcast called Within the Donut Hole.

SPEAKER_05 16:42

I did.

SPEAKER_04 16:44

I I heard it and I thought, this is fantastic. So, for all you folks out there that are knives out fans and let's say Daniel Craig fans, Chris was a guest on Within the Donut Hole, a Benoit Blanc podcast, where you broke down Glass Onion. So that was a fantastic listen.

SPEAKER_05 17:07

Yeah, no, I loved it. Fantastic show and a fantastic episode. Excellent.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

All right, my friend. This is as big as it gets. I mean, when we talk about a deep dive album, you only live twice. What are your first thoughts, Chris, when I say to you you only live twice?

SPEAKER_05 17:27

First thoughts are this is my desert island Bond album. Because I feel like there's enough here to evoke every emotion. You've got the dangerous bits, you've got the light-hearted bits, you've got the emotional bits, and then you've got that gorgeous opening title song. So for me, if I was to say, if I was put on the spot now to say which Bond album could you listen to every day for the rest of your life, it would be You Only Live Twice. What about you?

SPEAKER_04 17:59

I think that's a really good way of putting it. Yeah. It it's it's probably yeah, I think you're absolutely you know, I I never thought of it in those terms, but I think you're right. I think it's the one that I've listened to the most consistently over the period of my entire life. Yeah. And it yeah, I mean, just it it automatically puts a smile on your face and it just gets better and better. I went through a period where I had kind of an old rickety record player, and I just left You Only Live Twice on the record player. And on the way from the bedroom to the kitchen to get coffee, it was one of those automatic ones where you just press a button.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

Oh, great.

SPEAKER_04 18:48

And I I listened to this every morning. I would say first thing in the morning, it's how I started my day. I'd say for at least a year. Wow. And never got tired of it. No, well, that speaks volumes. So, well, I'm excited to do this one. Let's let's talk a little bit of a history about what was going on at the time. You know, John Barry at this point was absolutely just crushing it in film, TV, and theater. Thunderball on his resume, and basically the world was his oyster. By the time this film came out, the soundtrack came out, you know, it was the sound of secret agent music, which at the time was in fever pitch. I read in one trade publication that it was literally, they titled it James Bond Music. Um, which can you imagine living in a time where it was James Bond music? Um it is it we are in the era of James Bond music here on this show. Um, you know, you've got Man from Uncle, I Spy, Mission Impossible, R Man Flint, The Ipchrist Phile, starring Michael Cain. So, I mean, it's just there's just so much happening. And I think, you know, one of the things that I've read over and over again is you know that they were thrilled that they had a title that, you know, you the words you only live twice could actually be used lyrically.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:20

You know, in in contrast to Thunderball.

SPEAKER_05 20:23

So beautiful song title, You Only Live Twice. You know, just having the opportunity to write a song uh based on that title, it opens so many doors. You only live twice.

SPEAKER_04 20:35

I mean, that was like a softball, you know, easy lob. Yeah. So yet again, who did they call Leslie Burcusey? Is that right? I always Leslie Bricus, yeah. Fuck. I you know, you gotta be kidding. I know Tom is dying right now. I can I haven't gotten that right in 10 years. Jesus Christ, nobody on a popsicle stick. Ten years. I did the same thing. I want why do I want to say bricuse? Bricus. Leslie Bricas, hashtag he got the call. And apparently, according to Leslie Bricus, the whole affair began over a plate of Chinese food with Kirk Douglas.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

Now listen to this.

SPEAKER_04 21:24

I know, listen to this quote, because this is, I mean, talk about, you know, predicting the future. Quote Kirk invited us down to Palm Springs the week that John asked me to write the song. I remember smugly thinking as I sat there, how good can it get? I was being handsomely paid to spend the weekend at the home of one of my favorite movie stars writing the title song for a movie of one of my favorite heroes of fiction. I was in the guest house of Spartacus writing for James Bond. Oh, wow. Wow. That's the ultimate mic drop right there, Chris. Yeah. That's unbelievable. So what's great about this is, and I know I've probably talked about this nauseatingly, that house, I got to go in on a modernism tour. And then the owner of that house came to an open house that Nellie and I were holding, said he owned it. I was like, this guy's full of shit. And but I called him and he invited us over the next day and took us around and toured us the house around the house. And this is the same house that Connery's in the the lounge chair, and Tiffany Case comes in, and hey, that's the wig in my pool. Oh, incredible. And we drove by it, right, Chris, on the electric bikes? Yeah. We did. Yeah. Okay. So, and there was, you know, Terry O'Neill was on set that day all throughout Palm Springs at the Elrod and at that house. There's a lot of great photos. Most notably, there's one of Connery in between takes sitting in a green lounge chair reading Time magazine. That's iconic. Yeah, iconic. So you know, and that's that's pretty much what I've got as far as the history. I don't really know that we needed to discuss anything more than that.

SPEAKER_05 23:23

No, I mean the only the only thing I would say is sort of noteworthy is when Nancy was at this time in her career in '66, because this is the same year as Boots Were Made for Walking. Which I would say, I don't know about you, that's that's gotta be the tune that everyone associates with Nancy Sinatra outside of this. Would you say that's right? I would say that's absolutely right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

Or bang was can you can you see my computer because that is exactly what I had written down. I mean, Chris, are we gonna listen to no, no, no, by all means roll with it, man. I'm you've heard me say the same thing over and over again. No, no, no. Uh we had this conversation on the air. We've had this conversation off air to the delight of our girlfriends at Boozehound.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:11

I still laugh every time I'm there about it. It was a Friday night, date night, everyone's gussy it up. And Chris and I have like a foot-high stack of cardboard opening vinyl that I picked up from Mr. Mail on the way to taking our ladies out to you know, drinks and dinner.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

My my favorite bit of that was you leaning over the bar and asking the waitress for scissors. That bit makes me smile. Excuse me.

SPEAKER_04 24:35

You know that knife that you just use to cut uh you know limes with? You might have grabbed that for you from a second, and we're like, like it's almost because we don't want to poke the Majesty's Japanese OV vinyl. We're like, it was like we were performing some sort of you know surgery on the box. Two fine ass women right next to us, and Chris and I are talking about the strings, and you only live twice.

SPEAKER_05 25:02

I love it. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 25:05

Oh man. Well, with that, we will regale you with our thoughts on Thunderball Thunder, you gotta be kidding me. We will regale you with our thoughts on You Only Live Twice and Leslie Somebody's you know, beautiful work and Nancy's beautiful voice. So let's let's have a listen.

SPEAKER_05 25:26

Yeah, here we go.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

One for your two I don't think you're comfortable.

SPEAKER_04 28:07

Well, I could listen to that one all day. Enter Frank Sinatra, Old Blue Eyes, one of my favorites. Now, Chris, apparently Sinatra and Broccoli were dear friends, and I know this. How do I know this? Because I heard it directly from Barbara Broccoli's mouth. Oh they were they were socializing. And Broccoli was you know described as fatherly to Nancy, who was top in the charts, as you noted, with the boots are made for walking. I think there's a there's something delicate about her Nancy's voice, you know, and so much has been spent on you know the 25 takes and that she was a nervous wreck, you know. Yeah. Confidence levels. Totally in the booth, you know, 200 musicians. You got John and you know, Cubby staring at her from the control room. Yeah. So I mean, she was even quoted as saying, in that moment, you've got a problem child on your hands, John. So but I think it's a fantastic vocal take, and you know, whoever the editor of that tune is deserves award because it sounds like it's done in one take. It's seamless, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 29:30

To be fair, it's absolutely seamless. One question I have for you is because I really like Nancy Sinatra's voice in this too, and I like you know, I I think she shines in Bang Bang, which is stripped down just the tremolo guitar and her, you know, kill bill and all that. But would Nancy Sinatra have made it as a singer without having uh Frank as her father? Does she have the chops to be a singer in her own right, do you think? Or do you think that maybe we're kind of blinkered slightly by the fact that she has the Sinatra name a little bit?

SPEAKER_04 30:09

If you're gonna be a singer and Sinatra's your dad, you gotta leg up. But speaking of legs, I don't know if she has the chops, but she's got the legs like in a mini skirt and the black leather boots for sure. So yeah, I think there's a chance that Nancy, who you know was so beautiful as she is today, in case Nancy's listening, we'd love to have you on the show. I'm still waiting for you to come into the gym. So I I don't I don't know, but you know, she was such a babe that I I'd like to think so. What do you think?

SPEAKER_05 30:44

I I I think, yeah, I think it's the overall package with Nancy, and I would say that about other singers too, you know, that that maybe aren't who you would sort of draw to immediately as being an incredible singer, but has everything to a good standard as the whole package. So like you think of Tom Jones, that's an incredible voice, isn't it? Whereas one thing I will say about Nancy is maybe the voice is a little bit comes across maybe slightly vulnerable. I think that's the word I would use. But when you listen to Bang Bang, the storytelling in the way she delivers that is sublime. And there's another tune that I was hoping to tack off to the end of this episode, if it's alright with you, which is called Paris Summer. And it's Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, you know, they did those releases in the 60s. Well, Paris Summer is absolutely stunning. So yeah, I I don't know. I I think I think it's unfair really almost because you know you look at I I read an article today with Zack Starkey and he said he struggled in all of his early bands because the minute he would get in a band there would be loads of press interest, but all the articles would only talk about Zack Starkey and all the other members of his bands would be overlooked. So I think sometimes they're played a bit of a they get a leg up in the industry because they've got the Sinatra name, but maybe it also becomes quite hard because they have to prove that they have that name. Do you know what I mean? So yeah, it's just something I think about a lot. You know, would these would these sons and daughters of legends be famous without their legendary parents? It's just something I always think about. Definitely not being derogatory, it's just a thought.

SPEAKER_04 32:27

No, I think I think at the end of the day, you know maybe there would have been a song or two, but she had a great career, you know, she was a s a star in her own right.

unknown 32:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:40

So I mean, and let me ask you this, Chris. Let's I mean, cutting the crap, you know. I mean, we can get clever and about, oh, what are our top three favorite songs and throw in Chris Cornell or something, but if we're really being honest about the theme songs and which ones are iconic, is this in your top three?

SPEAKER_05 33:02

Oh, this is absolutely in my top three. Um this this is one that to be honest, is usually it kind of dances as my number one, you know, you only live twice. I think for me, there's always uh there's three that always sit in the top three. You've got you only live twice, nobody does it better, because I just think that's perfection and live and that die for obvious reasons. But I would say my number one spot is usually taken up either by Nancy or Carly.

SPEAKER_04 33:33

Oh, interesting. I like the validation. Yeah, uh she's in your top three. I I mean right out of the gate from oh god, okay. In no particular order, I'd probably say goldfinger, you only live twice and diamonds. Oh Diamonds.

SPEAKER_05 33:52

Yeah. They're all so good.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

I know. And I don't even know. I mean, Goldfinger I'm just putting it there because without it there's nothing. But I think Diamonds is number one, you only live twice is number two. Yeah.

unknown 34:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

And that's just because I'm you know rooting for my home team, maybe. But I don't know, Diamonds are forever is just gorgeous.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

It's it's yeah, it's the perfect the perfect bond song. It has all the ingredients, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_04 34:17

The point being we think a lot of this song, we love this song. So well, with that, Chris, what do you think about heading over? Let's let's run through this album and talk about the songs. What's up first?

SPEAKER_05 34:34

The wonderful capsule in space. Now, this for me is if I was making my top twenty list of bond cues on every single album, every soundtrack, this would make my top twenty. I absolutely love capsule in space for a few reasons. The build I think is just incredible. We've talked before about how John Barry can make things, you know, make sound sound like diamonds, can make sound sound like water. I think that opening melody line feels very, very spacey to me. It sounds like you're in space. What it does on screen is just enhances that scene and a little bonus ball. The guy, the astronaut who meets his untimely end is called Chris in the film as well. So there's a little bonus ball. Yeah. Because you hear like Chris, Chris, but yeah, so he uh he meets his end. Pretty rock and roll way to meet your end, to be honest. Yeah, um, but yeah, capsule in space for me. The only thing I do feel is there's I forget, I I mean I don't know the name of the cues now, but in one of the Austin Powers films, there's a there's a track that is basically capsule in space. So when I hear this, it kind of I do kind of think about Doctor Evil a little bit, but that's just that's just me. What do you think?

SPEAKER_04 38:32

Well, as soon as I hear that, you know, as soon as you drop that needle, I went, I'm watching that movie tonight.

SPEAKER_03 38:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:40

I I haven't watched a Bond film in a long time, to be honest with you. I really haven't. I just haven't. Nothing I'm not trying to make any kind of statement or I'm burned out. I just haven't, you know? And I I'm watching, as soon as I heard it, I was like, that's what I'm I'm throwing on tonight. I'm headed over to Sapporo Ramen. I'm gonna get a huge bowl of ramen, a couple of Japanese beers, and I'm coming home and I'm watching that. It is it sets the stage for the film and the soundtrack. And as a small child and even as an adult, there's something about it that I find quite scary. You know, sound. I mean, there's there's some terror in that tune, especially, you know now we're used to movies in space, but you know, you being you know, your oxygen being cutting off and floating away. I mean, that's pretty like what the hell? That's pretty wild. So it is wild. The the strings, the brass, that that circular thing happening with the piano. Um you know, I don't know. I love I love the the song. I you know, I I make fun at the song titles on some of these earlier ones. They were really not not a lot of time was spent, but I would have retitled this one bye-bye astronaut. Yeah, bye-bye Chris. Yeah, bye-bye Chris. There you go. Astronaut Chris. You know, your your dreams of being an astronaut ended right here.

SPEAKER_05 40:08

Yeah, right in the pre-titles of a bond. I'd love that.

SPEAKER_04 40:11

And you know, I mean, circling around to David Arnold, you know, if you've listened to him on podcasts, he tells the same, has to tell the same story over and over about the birthday party. You only live twice. Yeah. So in my mind, I'm imagining a young David Arnold sitting, you know, outside, legs crossed, got his Kool-Aid, watching this scene, hearing this music, and going, you know, I'm gonna be a film composer. Wow. This is uh this is how you do it.

SPEAKER_05 40:43

Yeah, awesome.

SPEAKER_04 40:44

Yeah, so we have this album and that opening tune to thank for all of the beautiful music that David Arnold has written and composed for many great films, above all the Bond films. Absolutely next.

SPEAKER_05 41:05

So next we have fight at Kobe Doc slash Helga. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

I mean what we're talking about is uh music to what might be my favorite scene in the entire Bond catalog. Yeah you know it it just that that piece of music it just captures the essence of the film and I absolutely adore the uh use of the main theme in that particular queue. And you've got that incredible harpsichord, the electric bass is going, but if anything, it just makes me want to pull out my tambourine and just get let that tambourine roll. Now, if you've ever played air tambourine, it's something special and brings a lot of joy to the room. But what really grabs me is at the very end listen listening to that extremely sexy trumpet, you know, towards the end of the song there. Sexy is a word that I try not to overuse like awesome, but it is truly sexy. What do you think it is?

SPEAKER_05 46:14

Yeah, it is. It's very it's tapping into that little loungy bit that you like in your in your diamond scores and all that. What I like about this is it just shows the beauty of an arrangement because what you have there is the same melody line, so the do do do but it can sound so different depending on the tempo and the instrumentation. So the first half of the the track is quite sort of upbeat, you know, it's it it it emotes that kind of nice happy feeling, and it's got the brass playing the the uh the main melody line there, but then at the back end there's strings and there's a bit of a like a marimba or some kind of wooden percussive instrument by the sounds of it, and it's playing exactly the same melody line, but it feels like a completely different song. So that's just the beauty, the beauty of John Barry there. Taking one seed and presenting it in two different ways within the same cue. I love it amazing, and agree with you, what a fantastic scene.

SPEAKER_04 47:18

Yeah, it's it would be if I had to compile, this should be an episode. I think that we actually wrote this down as one of our episodes, potential episodes, our top ten favorite non-theme song cues from the entire Bond catalogue. Yeah, yeah. And I gotta think this one probably is gonna be in there for me.

SPEAKER_05 47:39

Yeah, Fire Kobe Doc.

SPEAKER_04 47:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:42

So good.

SPEAKER_05 47:43

Absolutely. All right, my man. What's happening next? Okay, so next we have Tanaka's World. Here we go. It gives you that sort of sense of mystery and investigation. It's kind of got that there's high stakes kind of feel to it. It doesn't really do a lot in the song. It kind of stays quite consistent. I like the fact that you can hear a bit of woodwind in it playing that nice, really like it. But it's not one that would hit my greatest hits. Do you know what I mean? But I think it serves the album. What do you think? What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 50:21

Well, it's got that real flavor of you know that oriental flavor. And and I don't know if you know what came first. Did I hear this and just think, well, that's what the Orient sounds like, or is that indicative of what the Orient sounds like? So I dig that part of it. It it reeks of just sort of spy genre music. Yeah. And I love the flutes, I believe they're flutes, and again the beautiful strings. The string string arrangement the string arrangements in this album for this film are just a master class.

SPEAKER_05 51:01

Yeah, it's it's the string album. It really, I mean, the title track alone, this is the string album.

SPEAKER_04 51:07

And I genuinely love when a band gets to their string album. I mean, my favorite Doors album is A Soft Parade. Yeah. Which probably is not the common answer. Yeah. But I love the Sinatra stuff with the strings. I mean, I just uh you know, strings are beautiful. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 51:27

Yeah, really, really, really. I'm getting old. No, is you getting uh you're in your contemporary years, aren't you? Yeah, that's what exactly.

SPEAKER_04 51:36

I'm moving into my silver years. Silver years, yeah. So dig it.

SPEAKER_05 51:42

What's happening next? Okay, so the next track is a drop in the ocean. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 54:42

I mean, Bond is in action, and I can safely say I've never said this before, but I love the tuba, um, which is a real standout, another air instrument that doesn't get enough love. Um so it it and correct me if I'm wrong, Chris, it almost feels like it turns into some sort of waltz. Like the timing is, you know?

SPEAKER_05 55:05

Yeah, it does. And and you've got that. What I like about it as well is the way that the drums are emphasizing the the melody at the beginning. That dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. I just love the stabs on it. It sounds so cool.

SPEAKER_03 55:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 55:19

Would love to have watched the drummer recording that in real life.

SPEAKER_04 55:22

And it kind of bleeds into sort of the uh military kind of drums. I know it does seem to seem to be uh quite predominant with Barry pretty early on.

SPEAKER_05 55:33

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I love that. I love that. Again, I think what's quite interesting about this album when you really look at it like we are doing now, track by track, when I think of You Only Live Twice, I always think of you Kobe Docks and The Wedding and the main, you know, the main title song, Capture in Space. But it has got these little moments scattered throughout it that maybe you wouldn't think of immediately. I I doubt that that track that we've just heard there, Drop in an ocean, drop in the ocean. I doubt that's on everybody's sort of tip of their tongue when they think of their favourite Bond songs. But that's it's it's it's a nice tune. Do you know what I mean? It really does enhance the album, so yeah, quite an interesting, interesting listen, you only live twice. Totally.

SPEAKER_04 56:16

Ooh, this next one's got some emotion happening.

SPEAKER_05 56:19

Let's go for it. Yeah, so this is the death of Aki. So that was the death of Aki. Now, what I really like about this, a few things, kind of reminds me of a few things. There's a melody line. Now, have you heard the soundtrack to Inception? No. You haven't? Okay, so that's a Han Zimmer, Johnny Ma jobby. And there's the the melody line in this really does remind me of the main melody line. So I think the song's called Time in Inception, but don't quote me on that. It kind of reminds me of that. It's a s it's a similar melody. But the overall flavour of the track kind of reminds me of something that could be on the Godfather soundtrack as well. It's kind of got that that sleepy mafia vibe to it sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:14

Um but it's very you know, it's very downbeat, which it needs to be. It feels extremely emotional. And with what you're seeing on the screen and everything, I think it's it really is sublime, and it just shows that you know John Barry can can whip out any kind of emotion. What I always think as well is a lot of writers write, don't they, to a set time. So writers will, you know, composers will work in working hours nine till five, and they sit down and they churn them out. It must be quite hard, I think, to be going about your day, you know, saying hello to the milkmen, whatever they were doing in the sixties, and then you know, going out getting your shopping, and then coming home and just switching your brain into a mode that is that emotional, that dark, and that sad. I can't see how that would be an easy thing to do. So I would just be really interested to to know how you know how he would approach that because that's a really sad, sad song, isn't it?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:22

Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. That's an interesting analogy there. I hadn't quite thought about that, but it does make you wonder. And I just I I think when you you talk about a leading man, you talk about a composer, and you talk about them working symbiotically, I just think that it's you know Barry and Connery is one of their finest moments. Moments. Yeah, yeah. It it's incredible to me, and again, the master the master that is John Barry, that in this short piece of music, it goes from beauty to deadly to sorrowful. Yeah. And you know, she's one of the the I'd say one of the classier, especially up until that point, classier Bond girls. And you know, just very elegant and and you know, her death, it it really, you know, that whole scene is just so powerful. It is the performances, the way it's shot, and the lack of dialogue, and then obviously the music. So that's one of the re reasons you're here.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:39

I mean, just just think now, right? Let just just for one second, just pretend in your head that you are John Barry, okay? And you've you've you've pretty much finished your album, you've got all your tracks, but today, so exactly how you feel in your mind right now, however your day is going to be, when you come off this call, this podcast with me today, you have to write the music for Aki's death. Do you do you honestly think, forgetting musical prowess and talent, put that aside now, could you leave this call now, hop into a room and get yourself to where you need to be in your brain emotionally to write something like that? Probably not. Do you know what I mean? I just don't understand how people can do that. Or is it because he is so good at what he does, it's just autopilot and it comes out.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:31

It comes naturally. I think I think you're right about that. I think it just it it's just in him.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:39

You don't think he needs to go somewhere? It's just right, that's my task, and that's what I'll write. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:45

It's incre yeah, it's incredible to me, especially when you go see any kind of you know, symphony and they're just staring at sheets of paper all working together. I'm like, holy moly.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:55

And that's come out of someone's head. Stuff on that paper's come out of someone's mind and imagination.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:00

We just posted it on our stories over on Twin Sons, but uh it was John Williams' birthday, and there's this video footage of him, I believe, at Abbey Road, where he's got the choir singing something from Phantom Menace. God, I can't remember what it is, but it's like really powerful, this huge choir singing Latin. Oh wow, yeah. And it's so uh unbelievable that everyone holds it.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:31

Is it duel of the fates?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:32

Yes, Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:33

And there's a guy with long hair there, isn't he?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:34

Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah, I mean he's in the world. Thank God I'm hope hosting these podcasts and I can't even remember duel of the fates and someone's name ten years later. It's incredible. It gives me chills. Every time I see it, I'm like, I watch it like five times in a row. That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Like, how do they do that?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:54

They're all in like Nike t-shirts and trainers, and you're like, What?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:58

Yeah, I believe that's the that's the gig. Um so all right. I believe the next cue is mountains and sunsets.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:10

It is, and what and what we're gonna do is we're gonna flip our imaginary record over because this is the start of side two. So there's six tracks on either side, nice and even, nice and balanced. So this is yeah, mountains and sunsets. A beautiful, beautiful cue. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:33

What a gorgeous piece of music. I mean, just apex moment. It's just such a I think it's a the perfect use of inner inter intertwining, interweaving, I guess, the the theme song. Yeah. And you just got Bond making out on a volcano. You know, I mean you got that music and the I love that scene, Sean's smile is just you know tough day in the office.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:06

Yeah. What about you? So for me, on this on this album, that is the best representation of that main melody line other than the title song, because this album's really generous. We get that we get that used a lot in this album. But I think Mountains and Sunsets does that best because it strips it right back. You get beautiful harmony lines with the strings. And I feel like other than the main title, this is how I want my uh my string melody line presented. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:41

Yeah, beautiful. I mean that could that's a contender for my top ten as well.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:49

Next up, something you're familiar with.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:53

Um yeah, I've definitely had one of these. Um I've also done a cover of this as well, so I've done a little guitar version of the wedding in the past. Um yeah, this is track two on side two, and this is the wedding. And I think, to be honest, this is probably my favourite cue on the uh on the whole album. So here we go, this is the wedding. So the reason I like that one is because we've got a brand new melody. So generous with his melodies, with his hummable lines, is John Barry. And I just think, as you said, just evoking the whole Japanese thing. I mean, I I don't know what the sound of Japan is, I couldn't tell you, but that sounds very, very Japanese to me. Just a beautiful, beautiful melody line, some gorgeous scenery in those in the scene on what's going on on the screen. A bit of a hooky image with Sean, let's be honest. But the actual track itself is uh is sublime, and yeah, as I say, one of my favourites. And when I was thinking in in lockdown that I was doing guitar covers of Bond songs, it just stuck out to me thinking that's a beautiful line to play on the guitar at the wedding. So uh yeah, 10 out of 10 for me. What about you? Well, hang on a second.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:52

Chris, I don't I I'm sure I've heard it, but I'm just not recalling it. Where where can we hear the wedding? Shall I get it on the IG after we finish this? Please. Yeah, I'll put it on the feed. And I would love to hear, maybe this is one for your other IG, but I would love to hear the bang bang. What's it should the Nancy Sinatra song? You playing that on your cover of that. Yeah, I've already got that one done.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:19

There we go.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:19

I'll get that on. Okay, get that on as well, because that's uh that you're right. Is it a tremolo? Is that what's yeah, tremolo guitar?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:29

Gorgeous. Gorgeous. I'm just so connected to Kill Bill now.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:33

Just stripped down next to nothing. Yeah, amazing on that song. It's just that. I love it. Yeah. Well, I think The Wedding is a beautiful piece of music, and it absolutely conjures the you know, countryside of Japan. Kyoto is there's a part of of Kyoto that looks like what you would expect Japan to look like from a long time ago. And obviously had this soundtrack on I must have listened to it a hundred times, just having it on. My favorite was in that bar on my phone. But I this walking around sort of ancient Japan listening to this music was a real special moment. I know we a lot of us listening to this love to go somewhere, listen to music that's right, that's appropriate for the location, and this one definitely worked in Kyoto. Yeah. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. Excellent.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:35

Okay, so the next one we have is James Bond, an astronaut. It's just got that vibe for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:08

It is. I I have to tell the story. I was gonna tell it a few minutes ago, but uh the other night, I forget where we were, but I found myself, you know, when the the he's trying to back the cart up and he gets stuck and has to do like a 50-point turn. I literally, that happened to me the other day. Oh, we were leaving Amiba, it was last Saturday. We went to see the last Jetta at Academy Theater in LA, and we went to Amoeba afterwards, and I went the wrong way to like get out of the parking garage, and then we hit like a wall, so I had to do like a 20-point turn, and and Mellie and I didn't even mention Austin Powers, and we both were laughing because we just it just was awful. That scene where the steamroller's coming at the guy and he's like a hundred yards away. Just get out of the way. Oh my god, it's so funny anyway. Um, this is an awesome tune. I mean, it's classic Tom Sears, sneaky bonds, again with the military marching drums. There's some sort of uh you know this the the part of the song, the part of the cue, it's this trademark Barry. Yeah, you know, and I love how sort of the second half of the song it has that sort of dream like weightlessness strings, you know. So it's just uh again identifiable perfectly as a cue from this soundtrack.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:36

Yeah, absolutely love it. Fantastic. So the next track we have is countdown for Lofeld. So that was countdown for Blofeld, and what I really like about this is John Barry does something really, really clever with the woodwind at the beginning, and it's basically the you only live twice melody. So it's you know do do but the but each note is just changed slightly to make it a little bit out of kilter and throw you off, which is just wonderful. I love it when he does that. You get the military snare building up, which gives you that kind of that danger that's coming, and then you get a brand new melody line, another generous melody line at the end, which is something I appreciate massively. Just really, really, really cool. But I love what that Woodwind does at the beginning, just to throw you off. Because if you listen, it almost sounds like a child learning the song in their bedroom and getting the last note wrong. So when you listen to that, when you listen to that again, listen out for that because it's so clever. Love it. Excellent.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:22

Yeah, it's a it's a really great piece of music. And I gotta be honest with you, when I was listening to it the other night, writing notes for this show, I I just wrote Used Inspector. And I don't know I don't is it uh why did I write that down? I don't know, maybe it gives you that vibe. Is there a piece of that song that's used inspector or the trailer? I don't know. I can't I don't know why I wrote down used inspector. I could have crawled up my own R so I have no idea, but that's all I got. Somebody back check me on that. Why am I saying that? I wrote it down and have no idea why. Someone will tell us in the IJ. A hundred percent. I love that person.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:07

Yeah. And uh on the uh trend of on the nose song titles. Yeah. This is Bond Averts World War Three. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:40

Um like this one does it. This one just if you, you know, like, come on, what is it with a song title, especially when they're releasing these soundtracks before the album? You know, Chris, I just learned on the on my other show that the novelization to Empire Strikes Back came. out one month before the film. So people knew about it. They knew about the I am your father. Wow.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:09

Before they got to the cinema. Yeah. You just know there would have been some idiot in the queue that would have shouted that out and spoiled it for everyone.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:18

Yeah. You know what I mean? Absolutely. So anyway, it's a great big gigantic build and then release. It's a great tune. It just got a you know the wrong title.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:30

Do you know what I like about it as well that spiral at the end? That loopy thing. I think that's just so I just love that. I think that's so cool. Love it. Totally. Okay. And it takes us to our last track which is the last song on side two. This is obviously we're talking about the LP presentation of You Only Live Twice. And this is twice is the only way to live which I think is a fantastic song title. Wow. What a beautiful string line.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:53

Yeah I just think it's such a a lovely way to close the album. You know, just rounds out the album, you know, bookends the complete listen. Yeah for whatever reason on that version those the the the strings always get me but they get it's a little extra a little extra tug at the heart you know yeah yeah especially when you know what Bond's been through you know listening to that album there.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:19

It's just a nice way to uh to like you said tie a bow on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:25

So Chris what do you what do you think? I mean it's I it's different isn't it when you listen to an album kind of preparing to talk about it on a podcast. How is it how how is it is it the same did it change for you? Do you have more of an appreciation?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:41

You know what what are your thoughts? That's a really good question. And do you know what it did change for me. But I think maybe I had a bit of a preconceived idea that this was a little bit more of a fun album but obviously I'm listening to the LP version of this so obviously you know it's a condensed version, isn't it? But yeah I I feel like it still holds up for me. It would still be the one I would take with me but it definitely is different to what I remembered it being to put it that way. What about you?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:15

How so?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:17

Just a little less jovial and happy and a little bit more dark and deep it has a few moments that are a little bit more dangerous and sad. So yeah I thought it was I kind of had like 20 sort of little nellies in my mind thinking that every track's gonna be sort of skipping down the pavement. That's how I kind of remembered this soundtrack but I was wrong there.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:40

But I don't like it any less for that totally well you know for me I I just think this soundtrack is elegant. I think it's timeless and I think it's compelling I could yeah you know hit we could hit the record or the stop button on the recording of this show and I could put it on right now and I'd be happy as a pig in poo and and I really believe you know you got goldfinger you've got Living Light Die the Beautiful Kill I I think that as far as identifiable the strings for you only live twice are probably in my opinion the the most identifiable thing with the music of Bond that's out there.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:36

And I I'd agree with that.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:38

Yeah for for all that's been said about Sean's performance in this one and George's performance in Majesty's which I think is all hogwash you cannot fault John Barry's score for either of these films.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:56

No no I mean just absolutely perfection I I'm just holding as well as we're talking I'm just holding the LP in my hand and I'm just gazing at this artwork so to describe it to the listeners who will probably have this artwork embedded into their very brains you've got Connery on the left hand side of the LP cover uh with his leg crossed over doing that iconic stance pistol raised high holding a space helmet and then to the right hand side we have scantily clad Japanese ladies with pistols bathing a hairy chested Connery in water. So this is the kind of visuals that accompany this album. Very very cool and beautifully painted beautifully illustrated and Connery given a very panther esque staring look as he's receiving said water.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:55

Absolutely I don't know what art that's the perfect way to land that plane well I mean I know that hot tub art is it's up there with the best you know so um that one will not be hanging in the bottom by your choice or is that I mean I think that's uh talk about unanimous um well we want to thank everyone for tuning in as always we also as we were recording I we just got so swept up in the power that is this new Elvis documentary epic that we we sort of skipped over uh reading out comments on our last episode of which there were lots of emails lots of messages lots of comments so we will get to those next time around want to thank everyone for tuning in to that banger and we promise we'll be back sooner than later.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:54

Yeah as well we have I think it'd be quite a cool thing to announce this now if that's cool with you. Oh yes we have uh yes we've got a special guest coming up as well so it's all confirmed and we're we're gonna be recording it anytime soon we're we're gonna have Jen Dorwood from the Amazon series Road to a Million uh season one to come on and talk about her favorite five Bond tracks that's gonna be such a cool interview cannot wait to have Jen on a fantastic uh contestant in Road to a million got really really really far so uh yeah it's gonna be such a good conversation can't wait for it yeah that's gonna be amazing totally excited and I think also Chris we need to officially announce I am coming to visit you and Aaron and Jason and Emma and I told Nellie and I decided we wanted to come see you guys and see the baby and we kept saying you know look don't please don't make plans and folks let me tell you what I've got an I we've got an itinerary holy moly they have they have retorted I guess is the right word I think um with kindness so I'm gonna be landing in Manchester headed to yours on Wednesday April 15th and then we will be leaving on Wednesday April 22nd now it's not confirmed yet but somewhere in there in some location Chris and I are want to let everyone know we're gonna post up at a pub for a few hours and if you're anywhere near we would love it if you would come and hang out, have a few pints and uh we'll we'll solve all the world's problems, talk some bond.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:45

So that is in the works the plane tickets have been bought so save you know maybe mark your calendar if you're somewhere in the area Chris where what what area roughly are we talking about?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:59

It will probably be in Chester most likely be in Chester. That's that's probably when looking at the itinerary that's the day that I think would be the best the Chester day. Okay does everyone know where Chester is yeah yeah yeah birthplace well ho home homeland of Daniel Craig Chester.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:15

Oh that's nice so all right so the those those somewhere in there we're gonna lock down and we'll make that announcement it'll be very clear Chris will do an incredible video and we'll let you know the pub the location and I imagine the the ladies will be there so you'll meet the other halves and put up with all of the um Aaron's mom's invited yeah absolutely so we're looking forward to that our first unofficial official gathering yeah that'd be awesome excellent Chris as always thank you so much this is one of the great pleasures of my life so two years plus I can't tell you how wonderful it is to be able to uh spend time with you talking about music talking about bond likewise same here and I will say this because I was giving this some thought you this is a qu something we've asked ourselves especially in the beginning of the podcast is this podcast about bond or is it about music? I think it's quite clear now that this podcast is about music and Bond is the vehicle yeah I'd agree with that.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:24

It's the vessel that we use to discuss in business we can we can do 10 minutes on Elvis and we don't feel like we have to get back onto the bond track there's no pressure we can talk about what we like yeah exactly absolutely none all right guys we will talk with you soon until then yeah we'll see ya bye bye walking down some cobbled street the sound of water near my feet I've found her hundred thousand flashes in my mind in my arms we live in the windfire from the same looking for it from the sky pretending it was raining on the stomach of the string stand before me my feet found me I took the wedding ring off of my hand before he put his arms around me I had dreamed his dreams I didn't try it up