John Barry Dies at Age 77

Legendary composer of many Bond scores and winner of 5 Oscars

From Den of Geek

The legendary composer, Mr John Barry, has died. He was 77 years old. We caught the news from a Tweet off his fellow 007 composer, David Arnold, who wrote 'It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that John Barry passed away this morning'.

He added 'I am profoundly saddened by the news but profoundly thankful for everything he did for music and for me personally.'

Barry worked on the music of Bond films from Dr. No right through to 1987's The Living Daylights, and always claimed, too, that he was at the very least a co-author of the main 007 theme tune. (Monty Norman continues to get sole credit.)

He picked up five Oscars throughout his career, and was nominated for a further two more (one of which was for his underappreciated score to Chaplin). And across a movie scoring career that ran from 1960 to 2001's Enigma, Barry marked his place in cinema history as one of the finest movie score composers we've ever seen.