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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the suave ...

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 ...

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 ...