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		<title>Diamonds Are Forever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Diamonds Are Forever&#8221;, the title song, was the second James Bond theme to be performed by Shirley Bassey, after &#8220;Goldfinger&#8221; in 1964. Producer Harry Saltzman reportedly hated the song, and only the insistence of co-producer Cubby Broccoli kept it in the film. Saltzman&#8217;s major objection was to the sexual innuendo of the lyrics. Indeed, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man with the Golden Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme tune to &#8220;The Man with the Golden Gun&#8221;, released in 1974, was performed by Scottish singer Lulu, and composed by John Barry. The lyrics to the song were written by Don Black. Rock star Alice Cooper claims his song &#8220;The Man with the Golden Gun&#8221; was to be used by the producers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonraker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. Kate Bush and Frank Sinatra were both considered for the vocals, before Johnny Mathis was approached and offered the opportunity. However for some reason, Mathis, despite having started recording with Barry, was unable to complete the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Time High</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All Time High&#8221; is a song written by John Barry and Tim Rice, sung by American singer Rita Coolidge, and recorded and mixed by Stephen Short as the theme song for the James Bond film Octopussy.
Rita Coolidge&#8217;s recording of &#8220;All Time High&#8221; spent four weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary singles chart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Living Daylights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Living Daylights was the final Bond film to date to be scored by composer John Barry. The soundtrack is notable for its introduction of sequenced electronic rhythm tracks overdubbed with the orchestra—at thetime, a relatively new innovation.
The title song of the film, &#8220;The Living Daylights&#8221;, was recorded by the Norwegian pop-music group a-ha, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Licence to Kill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Initially Eric Clapton and Vic Flick were asked to write and perform the theme song to Licence to Kill. The theme was said to have been a new version based on the James Bond Theme. The guitar riff heard in the original recording of the theme was played by Flick. The prospect, however, fell apart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Know My Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You Know My Name,&#8221; performed by Chris Cornell, is the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. Cornell wrote it jointly with David Arnold, the soundtrack&#8217;s composer. The track was leaked onto the Internet on September 20, 2006. It is the first Bond theme to be sung by an American male vocalist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Lonely Boys Deliver &#8220;Christmas Spirit&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has become patently obvious that San Angelo, Texas&#8217; Los Lonely Boys have arrived at their true mainstream place in the musical order when they can release a Christmas album on Sony. And what&#8217;s not to like? Everything the brothers Garza play is infected with pure bluesy groove and roots rock verve.
The ten songs here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Your Eyes Only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For Your Eyes Only&#8221; is the theme tune to the 12th James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only, performed by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. The film, original soundtrack, and single were released in 1981. The track launched Easton as a serious artist in the United States and led to her later success in the Billboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Die Another Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Die Another Day&#8221; is the theme to the James Bond film of the same name recorded by Madonna. It was Madonna&#8217;s 20th anniversary of making hits. The single, released in late 2002, peaked at number eight in the United States and #3 in the United Kingdom selling 167,863 copies, making it the most successful Bond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Is Not Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The World Is Not Enough&#8221;, performed by Garbage, is the theme single of the James Bond film by the same name. It was released in compilation with the soundtrack album of the film by Radioactive Records and MCA during the final months of Garbage&#8217;s world tour in support of their platinum certified album Version 2.0.
&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A View to a Kill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A View to a Kill&#8221; is the thirteenth single by Duran Duran, released in May 1985.
It was a stand-alone single, created for the James Bond movie A View to a Kill, and it remains the only James Bond theme song to have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; it also made it to #2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GoldenEye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;GoldenEye&#8221; is a hit James Bond theme performed by Tina Turner used for the 1995 film, GoldenEye. The song was written especially for Turner by Bono and The Edge of U2 when they learned that she had been offered to sing the theme to the upcoming Bond movie, and the track was produced and mixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody Does It Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nobody Does It Better&#8221; is a power ballad composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager. It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It was the first Bond theme song to be titled differently from the name of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow Never Dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tomorrow Never Dies&#8221; is a song by Sheryl Crow, which was the theme song to the 18th James Bond film of the same name. The song, co-written by Crow, became her fifth UK Top 20 hit, peaking at #12 in 1997.
Another song, &#8220;Tomorrow Never Dies&#8221;, written by composer David Arnold and performed by k.d. lang, was [...]]]></description>
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