absolutely. Perfect ending for the sometimes romantic, always action-packed, location spectacular, hero in the end...James Bond 007

Could’ve easily been a theme song in its own right. I like that Barry incorporated the melodies of all three songs featured in the film into the soundtrack.

Can you send lyrics this with meaning?

Perfect song. Dalton was the man

When I first heard this, in the theater, I literally melted. I'm a man, and I melted, hearing this womams voice and devotion, to just one man.

I was in a mall sitting by a video store and it ran the highlights of the film . The beginning was awesome and the fight scene in the kitchen. That agent put up a good fight .

35 year now mate

Samd

they say the music in the 1980's was the best, and im beginning to believe it.

Roberto Canales Awesome, it’s such a good Bond film.

Roberto Canales TLD proudly sits at #5 in my top ten Bond films. Like Licence to Kill, it’s an underrated gem.

OneFromEasternFinland Agreed. Both of his films ended on a high note.

OneFromEasternFinland Ike

OneFromEasternFinland Ikr

I’m my opinion he is the second best looking but he is highly underrated

This was his best film . I just bought it on bluray.

Agree😂❤

Good point. Never thought about it that way but I think you're right!

I love the song but to be honest I wouldn't say best Bond movie.

This and LTK are the last ones where he smokes and acts like the character should. Sadly in today’s pathetic pc climate we’ll never get a Bond who smokes and acts like the character of the books does.

Enjoyed this movie immensely but I wouldn't call it best Bond movie

I agree with you completely. This and Licence To Kill are such powerful movies. Hard to better them

+Stacy Krausmann Totally agree, Stacy!!

+Stacy Krausmann strange how Dalton went so unnoticed and criticised....

Stacy Krausmann Amen to every point you made my friend, Dalton was indeed the ideal James Bond!!! Except for both Roger Moore & George Lazenby, all the other 007s were absolutely fantastic: Connery, Brosnan & Craig each brought something special, unique & magnificent to James Bond but Timothy Dalton WAS James Bond in my humble opinion :) It's a dam tragic shame that thanks to some stupid lawsuit between the producers & the studio that Dalton was prevented from filming his 3rd 007 epic :(

DragonHeart613 I know I found half of the script to Dalton's third Bond epic. Apparently, it took place in a sub and had a young Denzel Washington in it as a petty officer. It also had John Rhys-Davies returning. It actually had a lot in common with "The Hunt for Red October". I forgot the website that I had found it on, but it was a pretty decent thriller from what was written. I totally agree, Dalton was Fleming's Bond.

+Stacy Krausmann Don't forget the dash of humour on top of everything else.

I wish the producers let him do Goldeneye. But then Pierce Brosnan would have had the absolute worst run as bond 😂

MrBSeanB True - Had Dalton done GoldenEye, Brosnan would have had a semi decent start with Tomorrow Never Dies and then got bogged down by mediocrity 😆

John Roberts loved them all

+JPerez9011. I would agree that ''If There Was A Man'' is the best James Bond end title credits song in the history of the Bond film franchise. If only John Barry had insisted that the song be the main title song of the film ''The Living Daylights'', then Chrissie Hynde's ''If There Was A Man'' would just slightly edge out ''Diamonds Are Forever'' as the GOAT James Bond Main Title song, but as it stands Shirley Bassey's ''Diamonds Are Forever'' remains (and deservedly so) the GOAT James Bond main title song in the history of the Bond films.

I agree completely

You just mentioned the best two. You said it all

OfficialAnarchyz Which ones?

thought i was the only person in the world to have such thoughts and feelings inspired by this song, movie and the soundtrack...especially this particular song which is absolute perfection. short, sweet, and leaves you longing for more in a nostalgic kinda way. also wish it were available in another format. do the pretenders or crissy solo ever perform this song live?

have no answers to your good questions. i searched the web for this version, non-movie, and there isn't one. it's going on my mp3 player. i like the far-away sound to it. the electric guitar is great.

guess what james? i found another , longer-ending version of this song! it has a little bit of the movie at the beginning, unfortunately, but it's better because it's longer! here's the name of the person who put it on; canal de vesperottokrazy.

James Greene man so true this song just hits me right in the gut and gives me the chills. Fuck what a song and what a portrayal by Dalton. Shame we will never have more.

I never even knew Chrissie Hynde did a Bond song. All I ever knew about this soundtrack was that John Barry didn't get along with the A-ha kids during their collaboration for the theme song. By the end he likened them to Hitler Youth and the band felt Barry didn't deserve to be credited with "their" music. It was Barry's last Bond soundtrack so I never really bothered with the film.

Craig sucks

Almost brings tears to my eyes.

That's the truth my friend.

I'll sing it to you if you like if you've not yet found that woman to sing it to you? BTW I am a man and also I wouldn't mean it, I'd be happy to have a go if it helps at all. Oh, and I also can't sing too well either.

+Erik Geurten (Erick Overveen). The three GOAT James Bond soundtrack albums are (in no particular order) ''Diamonds Are Forever'', ''OHMSS'' and ''You Only Live Twice''. Those 3 Bond film scores are John Barry's 3 Bond film score masterpieces. When Barry scored ''TMWTGG'', the reality was that he was running out of fresh ideas for the Bond film scores which is totally understandable since his creative ''well'' was running dry in scoring that genre of film after he had created the three masterpiece Bond film scores cited above and three excellent Bond film scores ( ''FRWL'', ''Goldfinger'' and ''Thunderball''). ''The Living Daylights'' is a good film score but definitely not a great film score. In fairness to Barry, he was saddled with the music band Aha's lousy main title song for that Bond film , but he unfortunately made a terrible blunder when he failed to make Chrissie Hynde's magnificent ''If There Was A Man'' the main title song of the film.

Oh Can't forget Connery as well

I agree. Dalton brought back the Bond that Fleming had in the books To the big screen.

Man, Timothy Dalton was a total badass! He's the man in my book!

James Crawley Dalton was a very underrated Bond. For me, it’s Connery, Craig and Dalton as the 3 best Bond portrayals.

Amen my dear friend. Dalton was the bomb.

MJ L that is what I heard as well. What Dalton actually said was. He wanted to come back and do one more film. Maybe two. But Cubby wanted four or five. Dalton did not want to be tied down to a role for that long. When he already waited for 4 to 5 years. A real shame as Goldeneye would had been much better with Dalton.

There were major legal issues that lasted 5+ years between Licence to Kill and Goldeneye, which is what really killed off Dalton’s Bond. Shame, as he was good in the role.

Justin Duffy Had the legal issues not happened, Dalton would of done at least two more before signing off. Which is a shame because I feel he should of been Bond as early as 1981. For Your Eyes Only’s realistic and stripped back approach would of suited him. But all in all, he was a criminally underrated Bond.

@@LexingtonDeville984 yeah, he should've been the 80s Bond, Moore was already too old during that time

@@sunsetman22 I read he was first approached I believe for Octopussy. Dalton's been wanted for Bond ever since On Her Majesty's Secret Service but he felt he was too young at the time.

He was the perfect making Bond a dark and sinister character unlike his predecessor Roger Moore who made Bond a comedic figure. Dalton could have done more Bond films before Pierce Brosnan too over.

@@ruantengyi Dalton deserved a quartet before Brosnan. Sadly, his contracted third never happened due to legal BS between MGM and EON.

I agree 100%

Was the last good end song ever since in a Bond film . I like this entire soundtrack by John Barry whose was his last .

Tomorrow never dies had ¨Surrender¨ by K. D. Lang, though. Not saying it's better than this.... but damn, it was good!

+jmua04. ''FRWL'' and ''Goldfinger' are regarded by most fans and critics of the Bond films as the GOAT James Bond movies. ''The Living Daylights'' ( a good Bond film) is not even remotely close to being the GOAT Bond film.

alot of women like that dominant/submissive thing including myself.

+jaytotheell Connery was sexually harassing these gals though. lol.

like i said....

Was probably a 60s thing

Dalton is seriously underrated. He was way ahead of his time.

No. I think he was the best for playing Bond straight from the books.

Yes. Thank you, my friend. Exactly why I love TD. It's like he stepped right out of the books.

Agreed. Dalton was the best.

He was very good. Pity ROger Moore didn' t watch his films

Dale Hardiman I remember reading somewhere that Roger Moore did watch Licence To Kill, and said it was too violent.

Agreed!!

korben dallas yessir.

100%! History is proving it right time and again.

I think he was the best bond in the living daylights but he wasn't as good in licence to kill.

he was! He made Bond very dark and sinister whereas Moore made Bond a comedic figure.

Yeah, they keep taking down.

Yes. He was good for another three movies

***** Totally, TOTALLY AGREE!!!

Very Big Shame

+HovercraftHoliday they didn't just let the series lie dormant. Bond 17 (which many have dubbed The Property of a Lady, even though the script was never called that) entered pre-production in 1990, with a whole plot line worked out with settings in Scotland, Hong Kong and Japan. The film was set for a 1991 release. However, there were whole legal ranglings, as UA had been bought out by MGM after the Heaven's Gate fiasco in 1981, and MGM/UA was then being bought out by Pathe. There were disagreements over the rights to VHS profits and other TV broadcast rights. In short, Albert R. Broccoli couldn't make another film until 1993, but the film took a while to enter pre-production, and Dalton got bored of waiting and left the series. Do I think Dalton should have done more? Yes. Is he better than Moore and Brosnan? Definitely. But it's unfair to say that he caused the franchise to stutter - the 6 year gap between LTK and GoldenEye was nothing to do with the limited success of the former.

Or maybe another 6-7

She was real cute

Maryam wasn't a patch on Stacey from A View To A Kill

I think some of the Harry Potter end credits are "13 MINUTES LONG"!!!.

Psycho Dad hahahaha true 😊

well, this movie does have an opening credits segment lol

I heard the production of new bond movies were halted by legal issues between IP disputes in the early 90s. I'm sure the internet has some stories on it. by the time Dalton had a chance to do another movie, he was much older and not willing to continue. Brosnan was already an enticing new candidate.

+Kevin Crabtree it was MGM being bought out by Pathe and certain profits were fought over between the two companies.

Mere proof that playing the role of James Bond, while seems fun in our masculine fantasies, is *NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART*

Dalton is seriously underrated. this movie was awesome from start to finish. Dark and Gritty the way Ian Fleming wanted James Bond to be.

dalton coukd have done 1-2 more Bond films before Pierce Brosnan took over

He should had been in goldeneye. Maybe even in A View to A kill.

DaddyDrummer007 Imagine Dalton doing Moonraker aka the Fleming version and not the bloated Star Wars homage.

@@DaddyDrummer007 I liked Roger in AVTAK but I wish Dalton had done more, not knocking Pierce but Dalton had more to give, I think he was meant to do more but 6 years passed so he went on to find other work

@@richardcrew417 I agree. Dalton should least done three more film then he did. He really should had been the 80's Bond.

@@DaddyDrummer007 I'm a Roger Moore fan so I'm glad Roger was around for 3 of the 80s films but Dalton was a good replacement

+James Haynes. John Barry did not score the Bond film ''For Your Eyes Only''- it was scored by Bill Conti who is most famous for scoring the film ''Rocky''. As beautiful as Sheena Easton's song ''For Your Eyes Only'' is, it is not the greatest Bond film main title song.