The comedian Jerry Sadowitz was thrilled when he could sit in on an album recording with his idol, the late John Barry
I am John Barry's biggest fan and always will be, having been firmly struck by his sound when I was nine years old. The effect continues unabated. Having only ever seen a handful of photographs of him for the first 20 years, and knowing nothing about him other than the short blurbs on the back of long-playing records, I finally met him through a chance phone conversation with Barry's second-biggest fan, Robert Wood, and was fortunate enough to be allowed to sit through the entire recording of Moviola at Abbey Road Studio 1. While posing for the photo above, I said: "Your music is the best thing in my life." He replied: "You must have had a very miserable life!" Modest and insightful, as well as talented.
I worked in a record shop in Soho when I was 17 and I used save up for Barry albums: they were about �25 each ? which, in 1978, was absolutely outrageous ? but the music was like heroin to me.
Barry didn't compose anything for movies during the last 10 years of his life, but I visited his unofficial website every day hoping to hear of a new project. Like a drug addict, I was hoping for one more score.
One final comment: I cannot think of a "bad" Barry track ? you can pick any album and play any piece of incidental music (which is where his true genius lies) and it will stand on its own.
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