James Bond film ‘Dr No’ soundtrack composer dies

The music composer, Monty Norman, who wrote the soundtrack for the movie “James Bond”, died at the age of 94, after suffering from illness.

Norman’s most famous work, Dr No, was released in 1962 and starred Sean Connery.

Norman said he based the feature music, which debuted as part of a mix during the film’s opening, on an earlier piece called Bad Sign, Good Sign, which he created for a musical adaptation of VS Naipul’s A House for Mr Biswas.

Born in Monte Nocirovic in 1928, Norman sang in several popular bands in the 1950s and early 1960s. He moved on to writing songs for musicals in the late 1950s, contributing songwriting to Make Me an Offer, and writing music and lyrics to Wolf Mankowitz’s Expresso Bongo.

He also worked on the 1961 musical Belle, about the notorious Crippen murders, and the 1979 play Songbook, about a fictional Liverpool songwriter named Mooney Shapiro.