Dr. No (soundtrack) Dr. No (soundtrack) Dr. No is the original soundtrack for the first James Bond film of the same name. Composer Monty Norman was selected by producer Albert R. Broccoli after Broccoli backed a musical of Norman's "Belle" or "The Ballad of Dr. Crippen" written by Wolf Mankowitz, a frequent collaborator with Norman and an original screenwriter for "Dr. No". Norman's only previous film score had been "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" (1960). Norman traveled to Jamaica on the same chartered aircraft as the producers and many of the film's crew arriving on 14 January 1962. He met Chris Blackwell,
The James Bond Bedside Companion novels by authors Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) and John Gardner. Likewise it details information on every film from the first official Bond film "Dr. No", to the then-recent Bond film "Octopussy". Additionally, it discusses the two unofficial adaptations of "Casino Royale" and the remake of "Thunderball" called "Never Say Never Again". The 1988 publication included information on "A View to a Kill" (1985) and "The Living Daylights" (1987) as well as the books written by John Gardner since the 1984 edition. In 2001 the now defunct PublishingOnline company created a print-on-demand "facsimile" edition from scans of the 1988