TOP 40/ 60 YEARS OF JAMES BOND MUSIC. This post: #34. More: tomorrow. 

The TOP 40 SONGS from

60 YEARS of

 BOND

9Rank: 34

]Title: GOLDENEYE /(THE JUVENILE)

$Performer: Ace Of Base

)Movie: GoldenEye

l Year: 1995

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The first Scandinavian act to record a Bond title song was A-Ha, whose “The Living Daylights” saw the light of day in 1987. That Norwegian trio might have been followed 8 years later by Ace Of Base. The Swedish group had enjoyed worldwide success with singles such as “The Sign” and “All That She Wants”.

At the time, there had been a lengthy 5-year gap between Bond films ‘Licence To Kill’ and the proposed ‘GoldenEye’. Timothy Dalton was not reprising his role as 007. Pierce Brosnan was announced as the new Bond. Faith in the franchise was shaky and Ace Of Base’s US label Arista Records reportedly thought it too risky to link its global chart-topping group with a film that they reportedly expected would flop in America. As a result, the proposed song was withdrawn.

Tina Turner would go on to enjoy success with an entirely different song with the identical name. The new Bond instalment was a box office success.

Ace Of Base re-wrote the song, releasing it in 2002 with a new title: “The Juvenile”. Most of the chorus remains intact where the words “the juvenile” replaced “the goldeneye”. The new version appears on the album 'Da Capo'.

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