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 (film) which was famous for accompanying disappointed characters in Hamlet cigar commercials. He then plays the opening string section of the second movement, Andante, of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 as his hideout "Atlantis" rises from the sea. The score also includes two pieces of popular film music scored by Maurice Jarre. The "Doctor Zhivago" theme, which is played on Anya's music box during the pre-credit sequence, and the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia", which appears as background music during a desert sequence. "The Spy Who Loved Me" opened with a Royal Premiere attended by Princess Anne at the Odeon Leicester