You Only Live Twice Soundtrack

About You Only Live Twice Soundtrack

This soundtrack was the fourth of the series to be composed by John Barry. He tried to incorporate the elegance of the Oriental sound with Japanese music-inspired tracks. The theme song, You Only Live Twice, was composed by Barry and lyricist Leslie Bricusse and sung by Nancy Sinatra after her father Frank Sinatra got her the gig , John Barry declared that recorded version of the title track uses no less than 25 different takes from Sinatra's performance.

What's interesting

There are two versions of the song You Only Live Twice, sung by Nancy Sinatra , one directly from the film soundtrack, and a second one for record release . The film soundtrack song reached No. 11 in the UK charts and is widely recognised for its striking opening oriental phrase a factor that led it to been used as the main musical motif in Robbie Williams hit single Millennium almost 30 years later.

Details

Category

You Only Live Twice

Publisher / Manufacturer

United Artists

Date

1967

Rating

4

Original price

£0.5