John Barry was born on13 October, and was born in the UK. Because his father runs many theaters (which can also be used as concert halls), John Barry has been exposed to many famous European symphony orchestras or musicians since he was a child. John Barry's mother is also a pianist. When she was nine years old, she arranged for John Barry to study piano, which laid a good musical foundation for John Barry. Besides, John Barry can be regarded as a master of drama. He has been fascinated by movies and movie music for a long time. He said that he wanted to be a film musician like max steiner or Franz Waxman when he was very young, but he just didn't know how to do it.
In 1960s, John Barry returned to England after his military career, and formed the jazz band "John Barry Seven", which occupied a place in the pop music field. 1962, ian fleming's spy novel 007 series first appeared on the big screen. The soundtrack of the first Bond film "007" was originally signed by Monty Norman, but John Barry's friends invited John Barry to reinforce the soundtrack, hoping that John Barry could help write a theme song. John Barry didn't intend to agree at first, because he thought his style didn't match Monty Norman, but under the temptation of heavy money, John Barry promised to make some changes to Norman's works. However, John Barry said frankly that if he wanted to write, he would have to change it completely according to his wishes. Norman said to this practice: although it makes me lose face, so be it!
So John Barry spent the whole weekend rewriting a new theme song. It turned out that John Barry thought this piece of music would only be used as the opening music, and it was not until he entered the cinema that he found the whole movie and heard the theme everywhere. Not only was he not told in advance, but he didn't even name the author. John Barry naturally had to call the producer to protest. However, the producer told him not to be so angry because they had decided to give all sequels to John Barry. To this day, whether the original author of the Bond theme is Monty Norman or John Barry is still controversial. However, because John Barry has successively created 1 1 Bond film music, Bond film music is still the most representative work of John Barry.
John Barry finally starred in the Bond film Dawn of Life on 1987, and was later taken over by rising stars such as michael kamen, eric serra and David Arnold. Bond series not only made John Barry famous in the film industry, but also laid the basic image of spy film music, and it was also a masterpiece of John Barry's jazz style. Besides this series, works such as Body Heat, Midnight Cowboy and Cotton Club also show John Barry's authentic jazz skills, but in recent years, there are obviously few such works in John Barry.
About 70 years after Back in Time, Jahn Barry began to take aesthetic orchestral music as his main work style, which inevitably drew a romantic artist image for John Barry. But in fact, Barry's role is famous because of his persistence in art, such as his resolute withdrawal and
The jazz style and romantic orchestral style of Bond music are the basic impressions of ordinary fans on John Barry. From 65438 to 0998, John Barry released his solo album Soul of Everything, which was also based on these two musical styles. However, in fact, John Barry also wrote many musical works with both orchestral momentum and classical epic aesthetic feeling, most of which are historical plays. Winter Lion (1968), especially the masterpiece, is also John Barry's favorite work. The story of Winter Lion takes place before the music score. Based on his personal research and thinking, John Barry created music that he thought should exist in that era and conform to the story situation. It is a wonderful epic giant structure, which will definitely surprise fans who are familiar with Barry.
Perhaps one of John Barry's most unpleasant experiences in music was taking over barbra streisand's Prince of Tides. He always disagreed with barbra streisand. He thought Streisand interfered with musicians too much, so he finally decided to quit the job. Later, this song was taken over by rookie james newton howard. As for the film music that John Barry wanted to do but didn't have the chance to do, John Barry proposed two films. One is stanley kubrick's "200 1 A Space Odyssey". Frankly speaking, this is also a work that many contemporary musicians are eager to take, but in the end Kubrick chose classical music; The other is Paradise Cinema. John Barry said: Of course, the music written by ennio morricone is perfect. I hope to set the music for this film, because its story content is just like my childhood.
In recent years, the number of John Barry's works has been decreasing year by year, mainly for health reasons. Although only about one work is published every year, many fans still lead the enterprise. His recent works include Peach Trading, The Ultimate Password War and The Devil Expert. After 200 1-40 years, when The Beat Girl came out, Barry never slacked off in film music creation. His recent works include Crying, Dear Rises and Enigma, as well as the success of the albums Moviola, Soul of Everything and Eternal Echo, which enabled Barry to return to London to conduct a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.
201165438+1On October 30th, john barry died of a heart attack at the age of 77.