The theme song, to “For Your Eyes Only”, was written by Bill Conti (music) and Michael Leeson (lyrics), and performed by Sheena Easton. The song was later nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1982. Easton also made Bond film history as the first (and, to date, only) artist to perform the theme song on-screen during the opening title sequence. (Madonna would later one-up Easton by not only singing a Bond film theme song, but also taking a cameo role, in the film Die Another Day in 2002, though she remained uncredited.) The popularity of the song “For Your Eyes Only”, and Easton’s film appearance, are credited with establishing the artist as a star in North America; she had already been popular in her native UK for at least a year prior to the film’s release.

The soundtrack was composed by Bill Conti and, as with other Roger Moore Bond films, includes a more pop/disco-oriented sound; it was released as an album concurrent with the film’s release and later on compact disc. When the soundtrack was re-released, six bonus tracks were added that further showed Conti’s versatile approach to the film, and aided it in its return to a tougher, more realistic James Bond.

Track listing

1. “For Your Eyes Only” — Sheena Easton
2. “A Drive in the Country”
3. “Take Me Home” — Eddie Blair
4. “Melina’s Revenge”
5. “Gonzales Takes a Drive”
6. “St. Cyril’s Monastery”
7. “Make It Last All Night” — Rage
8. “Runaway”
9. “Submarine”
10. “For Your Eyes Only” — Derek Watkins
11. “Cortina”
12. “The P.M. Gets the Bird/For Your Eyes Only (reprise)” — Sheena Easton
13. “Gunbarrel/Flowers for Teresa/Sinking the St. Georges”
14. “Unfinished Business/Bond Meets Kristatos”
15. “Ski….Shoot….Jump….”
16. “Goodbye, Countess/No Head for Heights/Dining Alone”
17. “Recovering the Atac”
18. “Sub Vs. Sub”
19. “Run Them Down/The Climb”

See also:

• Bond films: Soundtrack
• For Your Eyes Only: Film