I remember him being a bit dismissive of them on a documentary. Can't remember which.
A-Ha's contribution was a lot more Bond-like and, y'know, musical than Duran Duran's.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 14:07,
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I read that The Durans just took John Barry to a pub
got him pissed and they spent the entire recording process behaving like dandies.
When the band gathered with Barry in November 1984 to start work on the song, things didn’t come together quite so easily. In his own memoir, Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran, former guitarist Andy Taylor recalls that he and John Taylor “were both heavily into booze at the time” and corrupted Barry by “heavily leading him astray with more drink. There was a great little pub just down the mews street from where [the composer] was based, and we would all disappear there for long afternoons.”
Things weren’t quite so collegial between Barry and keyboardist Nick Rhodes: The pair clashed, often contentiously, because “they were both stubborn and had very specific visions of how things should get done,” John Taylor wrote in his memoir.
Andy Taylor elaborated on the friction in Wild Boy, revealing that Rhodes especially bristled when Barry confronted him about musical matters: “‘I’m fucking not doing that,’ Nick would say flatly. ‘You can say all you want, but I know what I am talking about and at this time, you don’t,’ said Barry in his posh voice. ‘I’ve worked with people like Shirley Bassey and Roger Moore, and this is my gig, young man.’”
May all be bullshit but I'm pretty sure an interview where John Barry said the best band he worked with was Duran Duran and the worst was A-Ha
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 22:18,
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