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"A View to a Kill" is a song by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 7 May 1985. 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 a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming 's 1960 short story " From a View to a Kill ", the film has an entirely original screenplay.
"Licence to Kill" is a song by American singer Gladys Knight, written and recorded for the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill, taken from the soundtrack of the film's same name. The song was written by Narada Michael Walden , Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff , and produced by Walden and associate production helmed by Afanasieff.
The band Duran Duran made similar claims after they worked briefly with Barry on the theme to the previous Bond film, "A View to a Kill", in 1985.) The situation grew even more tense when Harket and company informed the producers they would not attend the London premiere.
The theme song "A View to a Kill", was written by John Barry and Duran Duran, and was recorded in London with a 60-piece orchestra. "A View to a Kill" is the most successful Bond theme to date. In 1986 Barry and Duran Duran were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 43rd Golden Globe Awards .
The soundtrack to Licence to Kill, the 16th Eon Productions James Bond film, was released by MCA Records in 1989.. Because the usual James Bond composer John Barry (who had scored almost every film from From Russia with Love onwards) was not available at the time as he was undergoing throat surgery after suffering a rupture of the esophagus in 1988, the soundtrack's more upbeat and suspenseful ...
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised President Donald Trump's media strategy on Monday, and said that the Democratic Party was using a playbook from the 1990s to fight back against the ...
In "From a View to a Kill" the SHAPE head of security, Colonel Schreiber, is described as having "the politely negative manner of a bank manager" and is shown as the antithesis of Bond, according to the historian Jeremy Black. Fleming describes him with greying hair, sitting at a desk with silver framed photographs of his family and a single ...