Unreleased Remix Version By Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero 7:25 Minutes Reissued on CD in Singles Box Set 1981–1985 (2003). Also released in a gatefold sleeve (DURANG 007).Track listing UK 7-inch (EMI, Duran 007) ī: "A View to a Kill (That Fatal Kiss)" – 2:31 However, her moving Le Bon's arm to talk to him causes him to accidentally activate a detonator concealed inside his Walkman, blowing up the Eiffel Tower. aren't you?", where he breaks the fourth wall to say, "Bon. The video ends with a beautiful young girl approaching Le Bon to question him, "Excuse me. The band's actions coincide with events shown from the movie, while Bond pursues May Day through the Tower, culminating in her escape via parachute. It then cuts to the band walking by the Tower on a secret mission: Simon Le Bon, disguised as a tourist, wearing a gray trenchcoat and carrying a Walkman John Taylor, a long-haired tourist dressed in black Nick Rhodes, a photographer working with a top model Andy Taylor, a blind accordionist who plays the Bond theme on the accordion and Roger Taylor, a supervisor inside a van. The video opens with the iconic gun barrel sequence and is centered around the scene from the film where Max Zorin's henchwoman May Day kills private detective Achille Aubergine in front of James Bond at the Tower. The song's music video was filmed in the Eiffel Tower and was directed by the duo of Godley & Creme. Reception Ĭash Box described the single as "a memorable and dynamic cut and easily one of Duran Duran’s very best efforts" that is "melodically strong" and employs "highly sophisticated state of the art production." As of October 2021 "A View to a Kill" is the seventh most streamed Duran Duran song in the UK. It remains the only Bond theme to achieve this chart placing. 45, and on 13 July it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 2 the following week, and remained at that position for three weeks. In the UK, it entered the singles chart at No. The song was finally completed in April 1985 and released that May. The band was in charge of the actual songwriting while Barry created the final arrangement, including the orchestral parts. He was working with us as virtually a sixth member of the group, but not really getting on our backs at all." ĭue to a clear separation of areas of responsibility, the cooperation between band and composer turned out to be largely harmonious. He has a great way of working brilliant chord arrangements. And that's why it happened so quickly because he was able to separate the good ideas from the bad ones, and he arranged them. He heard what we came up with and he put them into an order. Singer Simon Le Bon said of Barry: "He didn't really come up with any of the basic musical ideas. An early writing meeting at Taylor's flat in Knightsbridge led to everyone getting drunk instead of composing. The song was written by Duran Duran and John Barry, and recorded at Maison Rouge Studio and CTS Studio in London with a 60-piece orchestra.ĭuran Duran were chosen to do the song after bassist John Taylor (a lifelong Bond fan) approached producer Cubby Broccoli at a party and somewhat drunkenly asked, "If I give you a fiver, can I write a theme tune please." The band was then introduced to Bond composer John Barry, and also composer/producer Jonathan Elias (with whom Duran Duran members would later work many times). We're gonna play this for him." Background A great English composer familiar to Hollywood, his name was John Barry. Bassist John Taylor introduced the song by saying, "We lost a dear friend of ours this year. Following Barry's death in 2011, the band paid tribute to him for their encore at the Coachella Festival later that year, with Simon Le Bon reappearing in a tuxedo for a pared-down version backed by an orchestra, before launching into the familiar full-band hit version. The following year, composer John Barry and Duran Duran were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "A View to a Kill". The song was the last track recorded by the most famous five-member lineup of Duran Duran until their reunion in 2001 and was also performed by the band at Live Aid in Philadelphia, their final performance together before their first split. It remains the only James Bond theme song to have reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 it also made it to number two for three weeks on the UK Singles Chart while stuck behind Paul Hardcastle's " 19". Written and recorded as the theme for the James Bond film of the same name, it became one of the band's biggest hits. " A View to a Kill" is the thirteenth single by the English new wave and synth-pop band Duran Duran, released on. From the album A View to a Kill (soundtrack)
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