A View to a Kill (song) of ours this year – English composer John Barry. This is for him." The song was written by Duran Duran and John Barry, and recorded at Maison Rouge Studio and CTS Studio in London with a 60-piece orchestra. Duran Duran were chosen to do the song after bassist John Taylor (a lifelong Bond fan) approached producer Cubby Broccoli at a party, and somewhat drunkenly asked "When are you going to get someone "decent" to do one of your theme songs?" This inauspicious beginning led to some serious talks, and the band was introduced to Bond composer John Barry, and also
For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) of its title (but no characters or plot elements) to the fourteenth Bond film, "A View to a Kill" (1985). Plot elements from "The Hildebrand Rarity" were used in the sixteenth Bond film, "Licence to Kill" (1989), and the twenty-fourth Bond film "Spectre" references the title. "Quantum of Solace" was used as the title for the twenty-second Bond film (2008). Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin. The rider was "en route" from SHAPE, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, then located in Versailles, to his base, Station