John Barry

English composer & conductor of film music. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998. Born: November 3, 1933, York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Died: January 30, 2011, Oyster Bay, New York, USA. Remarkably, Barry is most associated in the public mind with a tune he did not in fact write but merely arranged, namely the James Bond Theme, which was credited as from the pen of Monty Norman. He did enjoy a long a…