For Your Eyes Only – Blondie
Before Sheena Easton arrived, Blondie had a crack at a James Bond title song for 1981’s FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. I adore their version and think it would have been one of the best 007 themes. Mad youtube genius LuiCoumo shows us exactly what the archetypal Maurice Binder credits would have looked like if the producers chose Blondie’s more rocking, desperate and romantic song.
November 12, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I’ve been buying the Bond Dvd sets & I watched “For Your Eyes Only” recently. This is a pretty darn good Bond film except, except, except for the awful Lynn Holly Johnson character. Her scenes with Roger Moore are excruciating. Also, the hockey scene — bad. Blondie (in 1981) would have been a radically good call for a Bond theme.
November 12, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I like the film as it’s one of the most realistic Moore Bonds. But I hate the soundtrack. And it’s somehow endearing that Moore rejects Johnson for being too young. A 007 first? But the Blondie song would not have been the hit that the Easton version was.
November 12, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Underrated Bond film, for the reasons Christian notes. It’s more grounded in realism, unlike the majority of the Moore Bond films. I agree about the endaring part of Moore rejecting Johnson as too young. And that scene where he stands aiming at that oncoming car, and then what follows immediately thereafter, is possibly the most genuinely emotional moment of the Moore era.
As Christian and I know, though, it’s all about Dalton!
November 12, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Are you guys Timothy Dalton fans? If so, that makes three of us.
November 12, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Yes, we are–glad to have found another, Bob!
November 12, 2008 at 10:15 pm
My next Retro-View will be well-recieved by at least two of you then.
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December 6, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Put me down as another huge dalton fan, way better than the others, and the films themselves were superb. I too love the blondie song, way ahead for the bond mentality I am afraid though in 81, had it been the nineties or late eighties then it would have bee appreciated. Fantastic song anyway, great debbie, and here lyrics are great too.
December 7, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Agreed JackieD. Probably the song was too much in 81, but props to them for thinking that way. I mean, if they got Scott Walker to pen a Bond song, they’re fearless…