Diamonds Are Forever (soundtrack)

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Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever cover
Soundtrack by John Barry
Released 1971
Recorded October 1971
Label EMI
Producer Frank Collura (Reissue)
Professional reviews
John Barry chronology
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969)		 Diamonds Are Forever
(1971)		 Mary, Queen of Scots
(1971)
James Bond soundtrack chronology
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969)		 Diamonds Are Forever
(1971)		 Live and Let Die
(1973)

Diamonds Are Forever is the soundtrack for the 7th James Bond film of the same name.

"Diamonds Are Forever", the title song, was the second James Bond theme to be performed by Shirley Bassey, after Goldfinger in 1964. Producer Harry Saltzman hated the song and it only made the film due to co-producer Cubby Broccoli. One of Saltzman's major objections was to the innuendo in the song. In an interview for the television programme James Bond's Greatest Hits composer John Barry revealed that he told Bassey to imagine she was singing about a penis. Bassey would later return for a third performance for 1979's Moonraker.

The original soundtrack was once again composed by John Barry. This was his sixth time composing for a James Bond film. The song has subsequently been sampled by rapper Kanye West in the single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone". It was also used by hip-hop group Dead Prez on the song "Psychology" from Let's Get Free. More recently, the song was covered by the British rock band the Arctic Monkeys at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival. In 2007 it was sampled by Yung Berg on his single Sexy Lady.

  1. Diamonds Are Forever (Main Title) - Shirley Bassey
  2. Bond Meets Bambi And Thumper
  3. Moon Buggy Ride
  4. Circus, Circus
  5. Death At The Whyte House
  6. Diamonds Are Forever (Source Instrumental)
  7. Diamonds Are Forever (Bond And Tiffany)
  8. Bond Smells A Rat
  9. Tiffany Case
  10. 007 And Counting
  11. Q's Trick
  12. To Hell With Blofeld
  13. Gunbarrel and Manhunt
  14. Mr.Wint and Mr.Kidd / Bond To Holland
  15. Peter Franks
  16. Airport Source / On The Road
  17. Slumber, Inc.
  18. The Whyte House
  19. Plenty, Then Tiffany
  20. Following The Diamonds
  21. Additional and Alternate Cues

v • d • e
The James Bond music
Monty Norman James Bond theme • Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project • The Best of Bond...James Bond
Themes of "Official" EON Productions films
John Barry & Orchestra Kingston Calypso • Matt Monro From Russia with Love • Anthony Newley Leslie Bricusse & Shirley Bassey Goldfinger • Tom Jones Thunderball • Nancy Sinatra You Only Live Twice • John Barry On Her Majesty's Secret Service • Louis Armstrong We Have All the Time in the World • Shirley Bassey Diamonds Are Forever • Paul McCartney & Wings Live and Let Die • Lulu The Man with the Golden Gun • Carole Bayer Sager & Carly Simon Nobody Does It Better • Shirley Bassey Moonraker • Sheena Easton For Your Eyes Only • Rita Coolidge All Time High • Duran Duran A View to a Kill • a-ha The Living Daylights • The Pretenders Where Has Everybody Gone? • Gladys Knight Licence To Kill • Patti LaBelle If You Asked Me To • Tina Turner GoldenEye • Sheryl Crow Tomorrow Never Dies • Garbage The World Is Not Enough • Madonna Die Another Day • Chris Cornell You Know My Name
Themes of non-EON films
Soundtrack albums
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