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"The Living Daylights" is a song performed by Norwegian pop group A-ha for the 1987 James Bond film of the same name. It was written by guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (often credited as just Pål Waaktaar). After first appearing in the context of the film, a revised version was included in the band's Stay on These Roads studio album, which came out in 1988.
John Barry was listed on the credits as co-writer and producer, and the initial release of the song was his version. A second version of the song, re-worked by A-ha in 1988, later appeared on their third album, Stay on These Roads. The band prefers their version of the song to Barry's.
When interviewed on a late-night show in 1987, Barry said that he found working with the band exhausting secondary to the band's insistence on using their own version of the song for release. In an interview with Hotrod Magazine, keyboardist Magne Furuholmen said that " fight with Barry left a rather unpleasant aftertaste. Apparently, he compared us to Hitlerjugend in a newspaper interview." Waaktaar-Savoy stated that although Barry produced the track, he never contributed to the songwriting process and should not have been credited as so (the band Duran Duran made similar claims after they worked briefly with Barry on the theme to the previous Bond film, "A View To A Kill" in 1985). However, Waaktaar-Savoy has also said: "I loved the stuff he added to the track. I mean, it gave it this sort of really cool string arrangement. That's when it, for me, started to sound like a Bond thing."
The music video, which was directed by Steve Barron, was shot at the 007 Stage in London, which was built specifically for the Bond franchise. It features various scenes from the film projected on to the band as they perform in an empty 007 stage. Separate footage from the movie itself is shown, along with footage from the film traced out and inserted to the footage of the band performing, which was a groundbreaking, yet expensive innovation at that time.
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"The Living Daylights" is a song performed by Norwegian pop group A-ha for the 1987 James Bond film of the same name. It was written by guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (often credited as just Pål Waaktaar). After first appearing in the context of the film, a revised version was included in the band's Stay on These Roads studio album, which came out in 1988.
John Barry was listed on the credits as co-writer and producer, and the initial release of the song was his version. A second version of the song, re-worked by A-ha in 1988, later appeared on their third album, Stay on These Roads. The band prefers their version of the song to Barry's.
When interviewed on a late-night show in 1987, Barry said that he found working with the band exhausting secondary to the band's insistence on using their own version of the song for release. In an interview with Hotrod Magazine, keyboardist Magne Furuholmen said that " fight with Barry left a rather unpleasant aftertaste. Apparently, he compared us to Hitlerjugend in a newspaper interview." Waaktaar-Savoy stated that although Barry produced the track, he never contributed to the songwriting process and should not have been credited as so (the band Duran Duran made similar claims after they worked briefly with Barry on the theme to the previous Bond film, "A View To A Kill" in 1985). However, Waaktaar-Savoy has also said: "I loved the stuff he added to the track. I mean, it gave it this sort of really cool string arrangement. That's when it, for me, started to sound like a Bond thing."
The music video, which was directed by Steve Barron, was shot at the 007 Stage in London, which was built specifically for the Bond franchise. It features various scenes from the film projected on to the band as they perform in an empty 007 stage. Separate footage from the movie itself is shown, along with footage from the film traced out and inserted to the footage of the band performing, which was a groundbreaking, yet expensive innovation at that time.
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Steve Barron
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