Moonraker (Main Title Designed by Maurice Binder)

[potgab7]

After years of analytical wrangling I finally concede...the BEST Bond theme...ever...

[Vladdyboy]

Really feels like their going in the

80's here.

[WeAtG17]

Where on earth did you get a textless version from?! Wow!

[kparakpolicguy]

What happened to all the great james bond themes of the previous times? in my opinion Die another day was the last good one.

[ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

@kparakpolicguy

The 1970's early 80's, will never return...: (

[kparakpolicguy]

@ITSFULLOFSTARS1 never say never again,i hope!!!!

[LeBouffonVert]

Best James Bond opening. Without the shadow of a doubt.

[kparakpolicguy]

@LeBouffonVert true!

[mondographics]

THEY GOT IT RIGHT

[funkeytoad08]

You know, after watching this flick again after many years I found myself surprised to really be enjoying it. I mean that, until the parts where they are in space. Thats where they kind of blew it on this film and it became campy. It's a damn shame too because it's one of Rodgers better bond films.

[bryngOneOn]

when u look at all the bonds, they all gave off calm, class and a layed back cool,all except roger. now looking back i think we were lucky the makers of roger moores bond didnt kill the franchise off with its glib approach

[shaneu1]

If this film is ever remade (and what isn't these days?), I'm going to audition for the role of Hugo Drax. Seriously.

[ChanceRooney7]

R.I. P. John Barry :(

[ZX71K]

Moonraker is my favourite Bond theme from John Barry with slower string-based textures and an emotive performance from Shirley Bassey. It may also be because this was the first Bond film I saw in the cinema back in 1979 when I was the impressionable age 8. Love it.

[gregingram1970]

@ZX71K Well i am serious that AV TAK is the best bond track. I think its more than just a track for a movie and its a brilliant bit of work. I dont know why John Barry complained because you can hear the demo version duran duran gave to him and its vistually the same as the single/version in the movie. I would add, duran duran were dis-integrating at that point as andy taylor had fell out with the rest of the band-.maybe that is what john barry meant but he had minmial input to the track

[gregingram1970]

@gregingram1970 but this was for me one of the best bond films....i like roger moore the best...maybe it was just my time watching bond in the 70s...but jaws was in it...good comedy. all in all, bond is fantasy...and good fun. dunnno if its past its sell by date

[3friend]

Maurice Binder did all the screen credits for the Bond films up to his death in 1991.He should have got an award for his work-absolutely brilliant-never been surpassed.

[celt67]

Frank Sinatra ,then Johnny Mathis were originally slated in to sing the Moonraker theme.. Sinatra turned it down , Mathis initially agreed, but had to pull out for some reason, and Shirley Bassey was only called in at the very last minute.

Indeed, Frank Sinatra also turned down 'You Only Live Twice' and suggested his daughter sing it.

[rkc2380]

this song alone reminds me how much of a raw deal i was given since i was born only 60 days after the 70s ended

[gregingram1970]

I liked James Bond as a kid. I cant suspend disbelief that frequently or susatin my disbelief for any more than 5 minutes now and so I can only reflect to Bond as my childhood: it was fantastic escapism - as if it was a warm glow of enchantment that lit up a childs mind from the hum drum of working class life and commanded the TV set of 70s Scotland. The best Bond theme, easily, is Duran Duran - A View To A Kill.

[fifthof]

@gregingram1970 I know this is a late reply,but holy guacamole....A View to a Kill!!! I went to see J.Barry at the Albert Hall in th 90's and he said having to work with Duran and A-ha! was the reason he stopped doing the themes. I think it 's godawful and one of the worst,but each to their own of course........unless you're joking?

[goldyn12345]

they should let shirley bassey sing a few more!! that or get tina turner to do a few more, i thought she sang goldenye brilliantly!!

[Sugarbehr1967]

I agree..Roger should have left after this one..HORRIBLE...but he did somehow redeem himself with 'For Your Eyes Only'...

[goldyn12345]

@Sugarbehr1967 yeah definitely, i think he should have left after octopussy!! in a view to a kill you could really tell he was getting on in age!

[longlivestalin1]

best bond song!

[Schlipperschlopper]

SUPERB SOUNDTRACK SUPERB ESTHETICS SUPERB SCRIPT SUPERB ACTORS!!! WONDERFULL!!!! Today they cant afford this excellent quality anymore, they try to replace quality with computer generated fake action!

Todays Bond movies suck completely! They are nothing more than high end

commercial TV spots!

[kirstash96]

esta i solo se vive dos veces para mi son de as mejores peliculas de james bond

[ftjax]

I remember 1979 well ....It was one of my best years, plus I celebrated the 20th anniversery of my high school graduation.............

[PungiFungi]

A Maurice Bnder title, a John Barry song and score and a performance from Shirley Bassey. Just these alone Moonraker blast all the Dalton, Brosnan and Craig Bonds out of the water.

[PsychotronicWar]

For me, it was the best Bond movie ever. So much action...

[luisrvigil]

in fact,ist almost sublime

[rocketshipstud1]

moonraker (1979)...i just watched this again last midnight on dvd...with milwaukees best beer and popcorn!...i love the last third of this movie!...wow! big budget $ and no c.g.i. ...priceless spaceforce astronaut eva backpack battle with laser rifles!...fantastic!

[rocketshipstud1]

moonraker came out between star wars...battlestar gallactica-tos...and star trek-the motion picture...and alien-1...so its got a strong sci-fi following!...(not a great "science fiction classic" movie...but a very fun sexy sci-fi movie!

[rocketshipstud1]

(now dont troll scream at me for this comment!)...moonraker has many sci-fi and trekkie fans who buy the dvd for their sci-fi movie collection!...(many people I know who are not big 007 fans ...watch moonraker as 1970s disco era sci-fi fun)...this movie needs the biggest screen possible like imax!

[rocketshipstud1]

thankyou!...(my very very favorite james bond theme and movie!) note I'm not saying its the best 007 movie (on her majestys secret service)...but I was a little boy and the space shuttles on the big screen were mind blowing!...(we had not seen a shuttle ever lauch until 1981) moonraker had a dozen shuttle lauches!

[madcapoperator]

If you hate this film you're probably a cynical nerdy tosser who has never gotten laid and votes tory!

[trickykid73]

So under rated bond theme ..... Amazing !!

[jackbestill]

one of the most romantically haunting songs ever written... much underrated perhaps because it's a bond theme... love it

[ohraider]

My best score in the series!

[3friend]

Maurice Binder who produced the title was a genius-same as John Barry who did the music-this was why mainly the early films were so great-unlike the last two!

[WillowCreekPictures]

I've lost count how many times I've seen these films and still love them. Moonraker was the first one I saw which is surprising considering what critics have recommended to watch first. I was alot younger when I saw them for the first time, must have been ten. Anyway... this in my top three fav tunes only second to a view to a kill and live and let die, my fav tune. what's yours?

[gurpst]

Willow, I'm with you. This was the first Bond I ever saw at the Lensic Theatre in Santa Fe, NM. People were lined up around the block! People need to look at this film from the year it was made. The laser shoot-out at the end may look corny, but back then - Wow! This was the closest next best thing to Star Wars. Special effects have evolved so much since then... The pre-title stunt is awazing! Ken Adam, Maurice Binder, John Barry... The gang was all there!

[oer6000]

just so you understand, I and my brother grew up having a Bond collection, and we watched every single movie at least ten times(over the course of 4-5 years), this is the only movie we never completely watched. Tells you a lot about the story.

I'll give it something though, It has one of the best opening songs.

[AdArmand]

Because this song is so beautifully subtle and sophisticated in delivery (Bassey REALLY plays down the bombast here), it's been virtually forgotten by the idiot masses. It's sublime.

[PsychotronicWar]

@AdArmand : totally correct. the movie and the song were amazing. I was in love with Lois Chiles when I saw the movie back in 1979. Dunno why, while I am a Bond freak and there are so many other powerful Bond movies, this one due to its soundtrack gained many points...so melancholic and so powerful simultaneously...

[stevemcgee99]

@AdArmand Definitely one of the best.

[shaneu1]

@AdArmand I agree wholeheartedly. It is the best of Maurice Binder's inimitable Bond title sequences. Better even than the classic "Goldfinger." I recall being virtually entranced by it when I saw "Moonraker" in a large theater that had an excellent sound system. "Sublime" is the perfect adjective. As for the film, I consider it the last of the really top-notch Bond films; subsequent ones have been mediocre, even though they contained the usual Broccoli ingredients.

[bandstem]

@shaneu1

Maurice Binder never did the sequence for Golgfinger. Robert Brownjohn did.

[shaneu1]

@bandstem To paraphrase a Johnny Carson riposte, "you are correct, Oddjob Breath!"

[Everydaylikesunday77]

@AdArmand Couldn't agree with your more. Absolutely stunning.

[Kaciollo75]

Best Bond title music, best Bond story, best Bond characters (Jaws - Richard Kiel in it), best Bond locations, best Bond pigeon... best Bond movie ever!

[19630541]

Under rated Bond theme from Bassey. Roger Moore should have started to think about calling it a day after this film.

[darkmarkrammstein]

yep but then there was 'never say never again' lol

[jadefalconmk1]

You can't really count that, as it was an 'unofficial' Bond film. If you read up on it, its all to do with legal battles. It's also why Spectre was never mentioned in the later films. It was practically a remake of Thunderball anyway.

[painlessissuicide]

actually, Roger Moore left after "For Your Eyes Only" (the next film) because he felt he was getting too old

James Brolin (father of Josh Brolin) screentested for "Octopussy" and was nearly cast, until the producers offered Moore a huge salary increase

[Quex01]

@painlessissuicide American soap opera actor James Brolin as Bond ? Now I appreciate Roger Moore much more, lol.

[alucard624]

@19630541 I agree, although I will say that For Your Eyes Only was a superb follow up. He should have stopped at that film. Moonraker is sort of a guilty pleasure for me. It represents the Roger Moore Bond at its ultimate silliness and over the top gags. The theme song IMO is better than the film in many ways.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Gorgeous and haunting song, beautifully sung.

[Choefoe]

A beautifull Bond /Bassey song, less played of the 3 of them, strange.

[equinoxranch]

Alan A Taylor and Tylekz and others, I agree...... Broccholi's daughter and other execs are destroying the continuity, the elan of her father - Bond films. Today, I think (a) Daniel Craig is great, just being given way to cold and harsh a "script".

You're right........, bring back the old theme, as it were. It was timeless, classy, fun...............

This was Bassey's best, by the way. Unreal arrangement, simply phenominal, incredible inflections, tone, note shifts. No surprise. Thanx Shirl

[darkmarkrammstein]

no way

[Tylekz]

I really wish the bond themes nowadays opt for this mood instead. Something soothing and transporting... "Another Way to Die" and "Die another Day" just annoyed the hell out of me.

[hanllidk]

I wish that the films nowadays are like

this. Die another day and quantum of solace just annoyed the hell out of me

[Isolar]

Beautiful, many trhanx:)

[theoctaman8]

Cool! How do you take the text out?

[qwertdr]

No, there are 'clean' versions on the DVDs

[buraritochugesha]

For me, 'The spy who loved me'', 'Moonraker', and 'For your eyes only' are the best trilogy !

[AlanAndrewTaylor]

agree, I find it hard to decide on my fav but these are up there at the top, I also loved live and let die and octopussy.

[otheusrex]

this is my favorite bond theme over goldfinger. I'm surprised i like it that much but I do. does anyone else feel that way?

[AlanAndrewTaylor]

I love this one too, moonraker was the first bond film I saw, strange since it has got alot of poor reviews and not recommended as a first one to watch. I don't agree.

[blumonde]

Thank you for posting it.

[HBLINK]

What! Moonraker bad? Back then, going into outer space in a space shuttle? Are you kidding me? They even had a space station that they boarded. Look when this movie came out I was a little older than a year old, so I could not remember my dad taking my fam to the drive-in to see it. But when they started show Moonraker a couple years later on ABC Saturday Night Movies, it was cooler than ice. Yup, I said ABC Saturday Night Movies. If you grew up in the 80's like me, that's old school.

[ernstblofeld97]

the movie is NOWHERE as near as bad as ppl say it is

[AlanAndrewTaylor]

I know what you mean, I guess there are just many who dislike the roger moore humor, I can't understand why.

[MikeTooleK9S]

What kind of psycho would take the text out of these things. The text is the focal point of the compositions.

[navyseal1000]

Moonraker was the best bond film EVER 100 stars if I could!!

[portbalto]

Old bond films are like classic English cars-class,style and elegant. Pure everlasting quality unrivaled by today's standards.

[AlanAndrewTaylor]

the worst bond for me is quantum of solace, I didn't like die another day much either. There trying hard with the effects, they should just sit down and say to themselves, lets make an old type of bond film, they might surprise themselves. I'm only 20 so it can't be an age thing.

[buraritochugesha]

I quite agree ! 'Quantum of solace' is not Bond movie.

We don't need to mind bad critics.

There are a lot of Moonraker freak in the world like me !

[jadefalconmk1]

I'm just thankful that the Jinx spin off never happened. And Halle Berry couldn't do Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder style sequence with nearly as much class, style or innocence.

[xxvtpatrick]

so seventies...

[VectorPrime2007]

i like the scene where Jaws was flapping his arms. It was a LOL

[dawwwood]

Reminds me of my school days, brilliant music, a film worth reminsceing.

[DangerouslyYours]

Beautiful opening theme and overall soundtrack.

[andrzejrobertendriu]

Lovely. Especially that bit with a girl sitting on a glittering diamond. Really pretty. ;D

I think both Mr. Binder and Mr. Kleinman did their job well! Maurice Binder started the whole Bond opening thing, he showd the proper way of doing the openings with class and style... But Daniel Kleinman made them a little more contemporary, more up to our times.. I'm very happy with the new openings, but I love the old ones as well, I have a great respect for Mr. Binder.

Greetings for all Bond fans!

[sbinsdca]

I thought that was a disco ball :-)

[PungiFungi]

The girls in the Bond films titles from GoldenEye on just shimmy and shake their asses a lot. The titles by Maurice Binder uses more imaginitive (and classy) ways of presenting the girls.

[walruslives14]

roger moore movies definitely had the most "shimmy and shake", and you obviously haven't seen die another day or either daniel craig opening which got rid of all "shimmy and shake"

[PungiFungi]

If you think Die Another Day do not have shimmy and shake then we must be watching differnet movies. Casino Royale had no shimmy and shake because Kleinman got rid of the girls. Then again, all of Kleimans' Bond titles for the most part rely on the girls writhing onscreen way too much.

[armbar23]

One of the less realistic movies but Bond has dodged enough bullets to turn him into swiss cheese so who's counting. Plus Jaws is my favorite henchman anyway.

[AdArmand]

This is a great funeral song - "I've seen your smile in a thousand dreams.". My great aunt was a Shirley Bassey fan and died before she had to chance to choose what she wanted played. We decided for her - i think it was the right choice.

[charla777]

beautiful and sexy!... miss the golden age of bond...

[ingareinar007]

I miss it as well.. More Bonds world! More charm..

[lancemovie]

easily the best bond villain so far

[UweFinken12]

I've seen any movie for 5 times a least,because I have the complete Ultimate Edtition box.If you believe or not,I like Moonraker most,the reason why??mmhhh I like this movie because it has more charme than the others,which doesn't mean that I don't like them too I love any movie,but the slow and very british style of Moonraker and this superb title song let me get to the conclusion that it's the best interpretation of bond at all,in my eyes only of course.

[majog1]

I agree.

[EvilKorbinDallas]

I didnt really like this Bond film as much as I enjoyed the other Roger Moores movies,I liked that Jaws found a girlfriend : )

[markbart]

Great song, great title sequence, horrible Bond film.

[jadefalconmk1]

A classic Bond title.

Notice how the newer ones don't seem to have the women in the title as much....Political correctness maybe?

[qwertdr]

They were used quite a bit in Die Another Day and The World is not Enough.

Casino Royale's lack of girls is just that they wern't used. Nothing to do with PC. Quantum has used them heavily.

[maxisgreatest]

Actually it was probably more likely used to reinforce Bonds love for the girl, and after that he gets all of them

[dfitz5]

No way in hell this is the best bond song. i mean live and let die is without a doubt the best bond song ever. Not only does the song suck but the movie sucks balls to.

[arcenta]

Nellis07- shirley did kiss kiss bang bang first, but they didn't like her version so they had Dione record it

[ashatut]

the best of bond is behind us, the golden era is gone with Roger Moore. This is definitely the best bond theme, just look at the picturisation.

[buraritochugesha]

I don't understand why many people don't like Moonraker.

Binder's main titles are ,how should I say, warmer than Daniel Kleinman's. I don't like CG so much.

[snake2g]

００７のオープニングはどれも素晴らしい

[bissikrima]

Arguably one of the best Bond theme song if not the best !

[FaytLinegod]

How many Bond themes has Shirley Bassey done? I've lost count...

[Marty2Hotty]

1) Goldfinger

2) Thunderball Unreleased "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"

3) Diamonds Are Forever

4) Moonraker

[Nellis07]

I thought Dione Warrwick did Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang?

[ingareinar007]

Dione Warwick did sing it, but it was just "a version" that they did not use eighter..

[claypole47]

The unused Thunderball song was Dionne Warwick

[hunklanders]

@claypole47 Warwick and Bassey both recorded versions.

[claypole47]

@hunklanders Of Thunderball? Didn't know Bassey did. Interesting!

[philadelphiaman]

@FaytLinegod

Dionne Warwick did the unreleased Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

[seanrrrr]

One of my favorite Bond themes.I love when Jaws turned into a good guy in this movie.

[ingareinar007]

Yes, great, and it was director Lewis Gilberts grandson who said to him: Why can`t he be a "goodie, not a badie?"

[raven41179]

I have always thought that this song had great lyrics. Shirley Bassey sounded amazing in this song.

[DragoUno]

Maurice Binder is Great! I watch Bond movies for his opening title not for the main contents.

[xxvtpatrick]

i do love moonraker...shirley bassey was perfect for bond.

[DarthTrailer]

Probably one of the most beautiful Bond title songs, next to You Only Live Twice.

This sequence is a classic.

Thanks for posting a textless version...really cool to watch.

[leeroynaggins]

I agree. Moonraker and You Only Live Twice are really nice openings for Early Bonds (although they are 10 years apart). I think I got into the Bond openings when the opening melody of You Only Live Twice was sampled in the pop song "Millenium". I kept thinking, 'where does that come from'?

[ennui2000]

Moonraker and Octopussy are my two favorite Bond themes. The title sequence for Moonraker is probably the most dream-like and alluring of them all. Shirley Bassey is incomparable in her style and vocalization of the lyrics.

[myskymusic]

Great! How did you get main title without Text? I think it is special clip.

[ingareinar007]

On DVD, you can see them without text. I prefer the text myself, bechause I "like it as is". Maurice Binder finished titles the night or thee night of the premiere! Wilson think the logic to that is that no one changed them, and the one you look at now "Moonraker", did cost more than DR:NO! But this is just my opinion. :)

[ingareinar007]

Sorry, "like it as IT is"

[combatescrima]

Old Bond Movies has the the right Atmosphere.

Great

[lickss]

Thank you, great theme, great bond movie-blows away Casino and the new bond want to be!!