James Martin paid tribute to his pal, chef Alastair Little, after he passed away at the age of 72.
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Monty Norman was a prolific singer-songwriter, best known for composing the iconic theme to the James Bond movie franchise. Norman, who has died aged 94, composed the music for 11 films and contributed to the soundtrack of more than 120, but it is for the memorable Bond signature tune that he will always be remembered.
Monty Noserovitch was born in Stepney, east London, in 1928, the only son of Latvian immigrant parents, Annie, a seamstress, and Abraham Noserovitch, a cabinet maker. His passion for music was inspired by his mother, who gave him a guitar at the age of 16, and developed during National Service in the RAF, where he began singing.
Norman had started his musical career as a singer, taking part in shows at the London Palladium with stars including Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. However, after writing a number of songs for artists including Frankie Vaughan and Rusty Draper, Norman had an epiphany, as he later recalled: “When the cheques started rolling in the penny dropped: maybe there was more money to be made from other people singing my songs than me singing other people’s songs.
”It was in the early Sixties that he first became involved in writing theme tunes for movies, including The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (1960) and the British science fiction disaster film, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). What is now universally known as the “James Bond theme” had initially been commissioned by the producer, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli for Dr No (1962), the film based on Ian Fleming’s eponymous spy novel.
Broccoli had been impressed by Norman’s score work for stage musicals, having already collaborated with him on Belle, or the Ballad of Dr Crippen. Norman, who was already busy on other projects, had
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