For Your Eyes Only (soundtrack)

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For Your Eyes Only
Soundtrack by Bill Conti
Released	1981
Label	EMI
Producer(s)	Frank Collura (Reissue)
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Bill Conti chronology
The Formula (1980)	For Your Eyes Only (1981)	Victory (1981)
James Bond soundtrack chronology
Moonraker (1979)	For Your Eyes Only (1981)	Octopussy (1983)

Main article: James Bond music

The theme song to For Your Eyes Only, was written by Bill Conti (music) and Michael Leeson (lyrics), and performed by Sheena Easton. The song was later nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1982. Easton also made Bond film history as the first (and, to date, only) artist to perform the theme song on-screen during the opening title sequence. (Madonna would later one-up Easton by not only singing a Bond film theme song, but also taking a cameo role, in the film Die Another Day in 2002, though she remained uncredited.) The popularity of the song "For Your Eyes Only", and Easton's film appearance, are credited with establishing the artist as a star in North America; she had already been popular in her native UK for at least a year prior to the film's release.

Originally, the band Blondie was approached to write and perform the theme song for the film. They produced a song also called "For Your Eyes Only" that they turned in to the producers, however, this was never used and Easton and Conti were subsequently asked to record an entirely new theme. Blondie eventually released their song on the 1982 album The Hunter.

The soundtrack was composed by Bill Conti and, as with other Roger Moore Bond films, includes a more pop/disco-oriented sound; it was released as an album concurrent with the film's release and later on compact disc. When the soundtrack was re-released, six bonus tracks were added that further showed Conti's versatile approach to the film, and aided it in its return to a tougher, more realistic James Bond. Not released but also heard in the film is a brief homage to John Williams' familiar theme from Jaws, when an unseen underwater horror (it is revealed to be an attacker in a J.I.M. diving suit) approaches within the sunken ship. (This was the third Bond film in a row to wittily include familiar music from a classic film.)

[edit] Track listing

Sheena Easton in For Your Eyes Only opening title. She is the only artist seen performing the song in the title sequence in the entire James Bond series.

1. " For Your Eyes Only" — Sheena Easton
2. "A Drive in the Country"
3. "Take Me Home" — Eddie Blair
4. "Melina's Revenge"
5. "Gonzales Takes a Dive"
6. "St. Cyril's Monastery"
7. "Make It Last All Night" — Rage
8. "Runaway"
9. "Submarine"
10. "For Your Eyes Only" — Derek Watkins
11. "Cortina"
12. "The P.M. Gets the Bird/For Your Eyes Only (reprise)" — Sheena Easton
13. "Gunbarrel/Flowers for Teresa/Sinking the St. Georges"
14. "Unfinished Business/Bond Meets Kristatos"
15. "Ski....Shoot....Jump...."
16. "Goodbye, Countess/No Head for Heights/Dining Alone"
17. "Recovering the Atac"
18. "Sub Vs. Sub"
19. "Run Them Down/The Climb"