A View to a Kill (soundtrack) A View to a Kill (soundtrack) A View to a Kill is the soundtrack for the film of the same name, the 14th installment in the James Bond film series. The theme song "A View to a Kill", was written by John Barry and Duran Duran, and was recorded in London with a 60-piece orchestra. "A View to a Kill" is the most successful Bond theme to date. In 1986 Barry and Duran Duran were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Duran Duran was chosen to do the song after bassist John Taylor (a lifelong Bond
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