John Barry, the Academy Award-winning film composer whose idiosyncratic and iconic compositions over the course of a lifetime in the movies -- including some of the best known James Bond music and the ...

LONDON — Composer John Barry, who won five Oscars for his film work but was best known for his contributions to a dozen James Bond movies, has died. He was 77. Barry died in New York on Sunday, his ...

Sam Smith did his homework when tasked with the challenge of giving the world another “James Bond” theme, a challenge that inevitably leads to people weighing what you’ve done against such masters of ...

LONDON (AP) — Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including “You Only Live Twice” and “Goldfinger” but couldn’t persuade a jury that he composed ...

John Barry, a five-time Academy Award-winning composer of movies such as “Born Free” and “Out of Africa” who earned a prominent spot in pop-culture history by writing the scores for 11 James Bond ...

Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice" and "Goldfinger" and developed the twanging guitar riff in the suave spy's ...