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 ...

British composer John Barry, best known for providing the soundtrack to the James Bond films and winner of five Academy Awards, has died. He was 77. "It is with great sadness that the family of ...

LONDON — 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 the ...

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 ...

You all know the James Bond theme - the reverbed guitars, the big, brassy horns. You could hum it right now. That's the piece of music that composer John Barry will best be remembered for; the ...

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John Barry's music was an essential ingredient in the James Bond's success, and his scores for 11 films in the spy thriller franchise left 007 viewers shaken and stirred. Barry, the Academy Award ...

The five-time Oscar winner also created the soundtracks for "Midnight Cowboy," "Dances With Wolves," "Out of Africa" and "Born Free." By Mimi Turner LONDON — John Barry, a five-time Oscar-winning ...

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