AND THE BOND PLAYED ON

AND THE BOND PLAYED ON

By Andrew Essex
(c) 1999 Entertainment Weekly Dec. 3 pg. 40-46

...The Living Daylights
1987 Song "The Living Daylights" by a-ha Dossier 007 goes new wave.
With the group behind "Take On Me," Bond fails to infiltrate U.S. charts.
Brian Lane (a-ha manager) "The band's always been a bit perplexed how
John Barry's name got on the songwriting credits."  John Barry "Since 
Goldfinger, I'd always used thematic material from the score in the
song; a-ha wasn't very happy about that."  Lane "At first the band was
very excited.  But it was obviously some special arrangement between 
John Barry and Cubby Broccoli.  Since Barry was an original Bond person,
I suppose they felt he had the divine right to oversee the boys' music."
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