John Barry Prendergast, OBE (/ˈbæri/; 3 November 1933– 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for 11 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the "James Bond Theme" to the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the scores to the award winning films Midnight Cowboy, Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the theme for the British television cult series The Persuaders !, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999 he was appointed OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music.
Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. This started a successful association between Barry and Eon Productions which lasted for 25 years.
The John Barry was a 520ton merchant, convict and immigrant sailing ship built in 1814 at Whitby, England by John Barry for his own interests.
Under the command of Stephenson Ellerby, she sailed from Portsmouth, England on 30 April 1819, with 142 male convicts. She arrived at Port Jackson, Australia on 26 September 1819. No convicts died on the voyage. On her second convict voyage to Australia under the command of Roger Dobson, she sailed from Cork, Ireland on 16 June 1821, with 180 male convicts. She arrived at Port Jackson on 7 November 1821. No convicts died on the voyage.
She made an emigrant voyage to Canada under the command of Peter Roche, she sailed from Cork, Ireland on 22 April 1825 and arrived at Quebec on 22 July 1825. She underwent repairs in 1828 and had new top-sides installed and part new whales.
She made a convict transportation voyage to Hobart, Australia arriving on 11 August 1834. She had a new deck and large repairs in 1834. Leaving Torbay, England on 21 September 1835 under the command of John Dobson, with 320 male convicts. She arrived at Port Jackson on 17 January 1836. No convicts died on the voyage. The lanthorn (lantern) for the Newcastle Heads (Nobbys) lighthouse was brought out by John Barry on this voyage.
John Steven Barry (August 31, 1924 – July 3, 2009) was an American business executive who popularized WD-40, a water-displacing spray and solvent that had been created in the 1950s for use in the space program and spread its use in the consumer market.
The product had originally been created by Rocket Chemical Company in 1953 as a degreasing and rust-preventing spray, with the name WD-40 coming from "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt". One of its earliest users was Convair, which used the liquid to protect the outside of its SM-65 Atlas missiles. Norm Larsen, one of WD-40's creators, saw that Convair employees had found uses in their homes and started marketing the product in stores starting in 1958. Barry had no involvement in the company until he was hired in 1969 to succeed his father-in-law, Cy Irving, as its chief executive office and president, with one of his first actions being to rename the company WD-40 Company after its best-known product, reasoning that the company was not in the rocket business, after all.
The building, originally constructed as office space, but long since residential, has also been home to Bond theme composer JohnBarry, in a 10th floor flat where Archer and his scientist wife Mary rented before buying the penthouse.
Flick had previously performed with the composer JohnBarry in the John Barry Seven and it was through Barry – who arranged Monty Norman’s theme for Dr No – that he landed the James Bond gig in 1962 ... ....
English composer JohnBarry earned number five and six, respectively, with Dances With Wolves and Out Of Africa... Dances With Wolves - John Barry ... Out Of Africa - John Barry.
... features devoted to the early films of John Flynn, an interview with the movie’s composer Barry De Vorzon and tons of material from earlier releases, including documentaries and promotional stuff.
... him poetically recounting Oscar Wilde’s post-prison stay in France, watching sexual transactions in the shadows, as the music bombastically swells like a lost JohnBarry-composed James Bond theme.
So for John and Paul to say Shout was their favourite record released that week was phenomenal ... I’d always thought [composer] John Barry was so stylish, so cool, and I knew his arrangements before I even knew the words.
So much so that the British Film Institute (BFI) has put trigger warnings on screenings of classic films in a retrospective for composer JohnBarry, saying they "will cause offence today” with ...
