Forsythe and Ryan wrote Connery's final Bond film tune
News
-Staff
By Staff
London
(ANI):
A
lost
theme
tune
to
Sean
Connery's
last
film
as
James
Bond
has
been
revealed
by
its
composer
after
25
years.
The
track
for
the
unofficial
Bond
movie
Never
Say
Never
Again
was
co-written
by
Stephen
Forsythe
and
Jim
Ryan.
However,
it
never
appeared
in
the
finished
film
due
to
contractual
issues.
Now,
25
years
later,
Forsythe
has
released
the
track
onto
the
Internet.
The
song,
sung
by
late
US
soul
singer
Phyllis
Hyman,
was
ultimately
replaced
by
a
more
disco-sounding
track
by
the
movie's
composer
Michel
Legrand.
However,
Forsythe
revealed
how
his
track
was
initially
intended
to
offer
a
traditional
John
Barry-esqe
theme
for
the
movie,
a
remake
of
Thunderball,
which
also
starred
Kim
Basinger,
Rowan
Atkinson
and
Max
von
Sydow.
"During
the
filming
of
the
James
Bond
movie
Never
Say
Never
Again,
I
co-wrote
the
title
song
for
the
movie
with
Jim
Ryan," the
Daily
Record
quoted
him,
as
stating
in
a
post
on
the
Video
Watchblog
website.
"Warner
Bros
informed
our
attorney
that
the
song
was
to
be
used
as
the
title
song
in
the
picture.
However,
shortly
before
its
release,
Warner
Bros
informed
us
that
the
song
could
not
be
used
because
Michel
Legrand,
who
wrote
the
score,
threatened
to
sue
them,
claiming
that
contractually
he
had
the
right
to
the
title
song.
So
my
song
was
never
released.
The
legendary
Phyllis
Hyman
was
my
first
choice
to
sing
the
song
and
working
with
her
is
one
of
the
highlights
of
my
musical
career."
"After
agreeing
to
sing
the
song,
she
arrived
at
the
studio
and,
without
any
rehearsal
and
only
having
heard
the
song
sung
once
at
the
breakfast
audition,
sang
the
song
in
one
perfect
take.
Phyllis
sadly
took
her
own
life
in
the
early
nineties.
The
year
before
she
died,
she
called
me
late
one
night
and
told
me
she
felt
that
Never
Say
Never
Again
was
her
best
and
favourite
recording," he
added.