James Bond Theme Spy Who Loved Me", titled "Bond 77", featured a disco sound, reflecting a style of music which was very popular at the time. "The Spy Who Loved Me" returned briefly to using the surf-rock guitar associated with the theme from the early days. One unusual instance occurred in "Octopussy", when Bond's contact, who is disguised as a snake charmer played a few notes of the tune for Roger Moore's James Bond, presumably as a pre-arranged identification signal; this is an example of the tune being used as diegetic music. In the last Bond film of Roger Moore, "A View to
The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) Bond, but also by the police officer involved. Benson argues that this runs counter to another theme in the novel, which had also appeared in a number of other Bond books including "Goldfinger": the concept of Bond as Saint George against the dragon. In this Black agrees, who sees "The Spy Who Loved Me" as being "an account of the vulnerable under challenge, of the manipulative nature of individuals and of the possibility of being trapped by evil". "The Spy Who Loved Me" was written in Jamaica at Fleming's Goldeneye estate in January and February 1961, and was the shortest