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- Skyfall
Credits
Music By: Thomas Newman
Orchestrated & Conducted By: TBC
James Bond Theme: Monty Norman
Album Label: Sony Music Classical
Released: October 29th 2012 (UK), November 6th 2012 (USA)
Song Written By: Adele and Paul Epworth
Song Performed By: Adele
Single Label: XL
Released: October 5th 2012 (iTunes), October 29th 2012 (CD)
Highest Chart Position:
1 (iTunes UK)
History
Thomas
Newman, who worked with Sam Mendes as composer for
"American Beauty", "Road to Perdition", "Jarhead" and
"Revolutionary Road" took
over scoring duties from David
Arnold, who had worked on the previous five James Bond
film. Arnold commented that Newman had been
selected by Mendes
because
of their
work together, rather than because of Arnold's commitment
to working with director Danny Boyle as composer for
the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
After months of rumours, singer-songwriter
Adele confirmed that she had written and recorded the film's
theme song with
her regular songwriter, Paul Epworth in October 2012. Adele
later posted the cover for the "Skyfall" sheet
music on Twitter, crediting the songwriting to herself
and Epworth,
with arrangements to both Epworth and orchestrator J. A.
C. Redford. The song was released online at 0:07am
BST on 5 October 2012, a day dubbed "James Bond Day" by
the producers as it marks fifty years to the day of the
release of Dr. No. It shot
to #1 in the iTunes charts the
next day. A CD release follows on October 29th, 2012 that
includes an instrumental version of the title theme.
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Above: Cover artwork for the CD single
release of "Skyfall" (UK)
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