Sad news...
I love some of his music... Dances with Wolves was brilliant, but if you really want your socks blown off, listen to the music he did for Raise The Titanic. His track "All That's Left", for me, absolutely screams Titanic...
Composer John Barry has died at the age of 77, following an illustrious career which encompassed work on The Ipcress File, Midnight Cowboy, Zulu, Born Free and Dances With Wolves. His family announced in a statement: "It is with great sadness that the family of composer John Barry announce his passing on the 30th of January …
The best part of the ill-fated George Lazenby Bond film is the song, "We Have All The Time In The World", the last song ever recorded by the incomparable Louis Armstrong. John Barry's music was the saving grace of many a film - but in my opinion that single piece of music (my ring tone, incidentally) is probably one of the best he ever wrote.
John Barry, you will be missed.
... but his soundtrack for "The Ipcress File" is, for my money, about the best thing he ever did; it took a good film and turned it into a bloody brilliant one, and I'm not exactly a fan of the whole 'spy film' genre.
RIP - about the only famous musician to come from York[1]
[1] - Shed Seven don't count.