007 Soundtrack: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

007 Soundtrack: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

June 28, 2014 0 By 007 Travelers
FILM: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1981
SCORE COMPOSER: Bill Conti
TITLE SONG: “For Your Eyes Only”
COMPOSED BY: Bill Conti, Michael Leeson
PERFORMED BY: Sheena Easton

For Your Eyes Only is the soundtrack for the 12th James Bond film of the same name.
The theme song was written by Bill Conti (music) and Michael Leeson (lyrics), and performed by Sheena Easton. The song was later nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1982. Easton also made Bond film history as the first (and, to date, only) artist to perform the theme song on-screen during the opening title sequence.

 

Originally, the band Blondie was approached to write and perform the theme song for the film. They produced a song also called For Your Eyes Only that they turned in to the producers, however, this was rejected because the company wanted the Conti song and the band refused, and subsequently asked Easton to record an entirely new theme. Blondie eventually released their song on the 1982 album The Hunter. The track Make It Last All Night, performed by Rage and used for the scene at hitman Gonzales’ Spanish poolside, is notable for lyrics more suggestive even than the raunchiest Bond title track (arguably, The Man with the Golden Gun).

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TRACK LISTING
  1. “For Your Eyes Only” – Sheena Easton
  2. “A Drive in the Country”
  3. “Take Me Home” – Flügelhorn solo: Eddie Blair
  4. “Melina’s Revenge”
  5. “Gonzales Takes a Dive”
  6. “St. Cyril’s Monastery”
  7. “Make It Last All Night” – Rage
  8. “Runaway”
  9. “Submarine”
  10. “For Your Eyes Only (Instrumental)” – Flügelhorn solo: Derek Watkins
  11. “Cortina”
  12. “The P.M. Gets the Bird/For Your Eyes Only – Reprise” – Sheena Easton
  13. “Gunbarrel/Flowers for Teresa/Sinking the St. Georges”
  14. “Unfinished Business/Bond Meets Kristatos”
  15. “Ski…Shoot…Jump…”
  16. “Goodbye, Countess/No Head for Heights/Dining Alone”
  17. “Recovering the ATAC”
  18. “Sub vs. Sub”
  19. “Run Them Down/The Climb”
 
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