Composer John Barry has died today aged 77.
His career spanned almost 50 years and there was not a genre of music he didn’t touch. He was most well known for his’ James Bond Scores’, namely, ‘From Russia with love’, ‘Goldfinger’ and ‘Diamonds are forever’.Other notable film work included ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Born Free’ and ‘Out of Africa’.
In my opinion much of his greatest work was for the small screen. Starting his career as The John Barry Seven he had a hit with...

The featured music this month on Radio Soundsfamiliar comes from the 1970’s Television series ‘The Protectors’.

First broadcast between 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long .

It starred Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter (The Forsyte Saga) as the Contessa Caroline di Contini.

The series was created by Gerry Anderson, which was his first real departure into live action, up until then he had been responsibl...

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