“It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Monty Norman on July 11, 2022, following a brief illness,” underscored a statement on the page, illustrated by a black-and-white photo of the composer.
At first, the producers were skeptical about the theme song for the Bond films, created for the first in the saga: “The Satanic Dr. No” (1962), and asked John Barry (who died in 2011 and author of music such as “África mía”) to modify it.
Barry therefore claimed the authorship of the work, but in 2001 Monty Norman won a libel suit against the British newspaper The Sunday Times, which attributed it to Barry.
Born in East London to a Jewish family, he fell in love with the music of Eric Clapton and The Beatles, and got his first guitar at the age of 16.
Between the 1950s and early 1960s, he sang in jazz groups such as Cyril Stapleton, Ted Heath, and Nat Temple, and participated in variety shows.
Together with the well-known Benny Hill, they toured the cities of the United Kingdom with a comedy show.
Later he began to compose and write songs for Cliff Richard and Tommy Steel, one of the pioneers of rock in the United Kingdom, and in musical comedies (“Make Me An Offer” and “Expresso Bongo”).
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