20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Living Daylights (1987)

15. “Where Has Everybody Gone?”

The Living Daylights was not the happiest experience for long-time Bond composer, John Barry. Even though it is one of his most celebrated Bond scores and he appeared as a conductor in the closing minutes of the film, it was his final active contribution to the Double-0 Seven saga.

Nevertheless, as James Bond was largely a one-woman man in his 15th official onscreen adventure, Barry felt that a romantic song was appropriate for the film’s end titles and therefore devised the song “If There Was A Man” with Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of rock group, The Pretenders.

The collaboration was so productive that John Barry and The Pretenders were granted permission to record a second, more audacious song, “Where Has Everybody Gone?”, played during sequences when Necros eliminates his victims.

Additionally, Barry wove the instrumental versions of the songs into the film’s soundtrack.

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