You Only Live Twice

by John Barry

You Only Live Twice cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 July 1967
  • Label: United Artists
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 36:32
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Nancy Sinatra, the first non-British singer of a Bond theme, fronts Barry's most openly Japanese-inflected score, recorded at CTS Studios in London in April 1967. The title song's string figure was later re-recorded as the backbone of Robbie Williams' 'Millennium'.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, lounge, melodic, ballad, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. You Only Live Twice - Main Title (2:47)
  2. Capsule In Space (2:45)
  3. Fight At Kobe Dock - Helga (4:03)
  4. Tanaka's World (2:08)
  5. A Drop In The Ocean (2:23)
  6. The Death Of Aki (4:21)
  7. Mountains And Sunsets (3:14)
  8. The Wedding (2:49)
  9. James Bond - Astronaut (3:31)
  10. Countdown For Blofeld (2:38)
  11. Bond Averts World War Three (2:18)
  12. You Only Live Twice (3:29)

Credits

  • Leslie Bricusse - written-by
  • Don Black - written-by

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