The History of the James Bond Theme
With its blaring horns and twangy surf guitar, the theme music used at the start of every James Bond movie is as much a part of the franchise s iconography as exotic locales, beautiful women and shaken-not-stirred martinis. But its start was inauspicious, based on a few bars of music lifted from an unproduced musical.
When looking for someone to create the score for Eon Productions first Bond film,
Dr. No, producer Albert Cubby Broccoli turned to Monty Norman, a composer for the stage with whom he had worked a few years earlier on the musical