Michael Jackson Videos - Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Shirley Bassey - OST - (Special Edition)

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Song: Diamonds Are Forever. Performed by: Shirley Bassey. Song written by: Don Black. Music composed by: John Barry. Song Record Label: EMI Records. Film: Diamonds Are Forever. Starring: Sean Connery as James Bond 007, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy De... More

Song: Diamonds Are Forever. Performed by: Shirley Bassey. Song written by: Don Black. Music composed by: John Barry. Song Record Label: EMI Records. Film: Diamonds Are Forever. Starring: Sean Connery as James Bond 007, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Glover, Putter Smith and Bernard Lee. Directed by: Guy Hamilton. Music by : John Barry. Novel & Story written by: Ian Fleming. Screenplay written by: Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. Theatrical Release Dates: 6 Aug 1971 (U.S.)14 Dec 1971 (West Germany) 30 Dec 1971(UK) Distributed by: © United Artists. Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove Synopsis! "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) is the seventh spy film in the EON Productions James Bond series, and the sixth and final official film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond impersonating a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and soon uncovering a plot by his old nemesis Blofeld to use the diamonds and build a giant laser satellite that would be used to hold the world for ransom. After George Lazenby left the franchise, producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli tested other actors, but studio United Artists wanted Sean Connery back, paying a then-record $1.2 million salary for him to return. The producers were inspired by Goldfinger, eventually hiring that film's director, Guy Hamilton. Locations included Las Vegas, California, Amsterdam and Lufthansa's hangar in Germany. Diamonds Are Forever was a commercial and critical success, but received criticism for its humorous camp tone. About Song! "Diamonds Are Forever", the title song, was the second James Bond theme to be performed by Shirley Bassey, after "Goldfinger" in 1964. Producer Harry Saltzman reportedly hated the song, and only the insistence of co-producer Cubby Broccoli kept it in the film. Saltzman's major objection was to the sexual innuendo of the lyrics. Indeed, in an interview for the television programme James Bond's Greatest Hits composer John Barry revealed that he told Bassey to imagine she was singing about a penis. Bassey would later return for a third performance for 1979's Moonraker. The original soundtrack was once again composed by John Barry, his sixth time composing for a Bond film. With Connery back in the lead role, the "James Bond Theme" was played by an electric guitar in the somewhat unique, blued gunbarrel sequence accompanied with prismatic ripples of light, and pre-credits sequence, and in a full orchestral version during a hovercraft sequence in Amsterdam. .....Lyrics..... Diamonds are forever, They are all I need to please me, They can stimulate and tease me, They won't leave in the night, I've no fear that they might desert me. Diamonds are forever, Hold one up and then caress it, Touch it, stroke it and undress it, I can see every part, Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me. I don't need love, For what good will love do me? Diamonds never lie to me, For when love's gone, They'll luster on. Diamonds are forever, Sparkling round my little finger. Unlike men, the diamonds linger; Men are mere mortals who Are not worth going to your grave for. I don't need love, For what good will love do me? Diamonds never lie to me, For when love's gone, They'll luster on. Diamonds are forever, forever, forever. Diamonds are forever, forever, forever. Forever and ever.....End Less