John Barry - The Black Hole Theme (2011 Digital Remaster)

A High Def Remaster from the original digital tapes. Truly beautiful! Available from Intrada/Disney Records now!

[@rhisiartaphugh6619]

One thing I always liked about this theme: it's a waltz. A slow, spiraling dance into oblivion...

[@f.herumusu8341]

It's written in 3/4, but that does not make it automatically a waltz. At least I can't imagine someone dancing to it at the vienna opera ball.

[@targetdreamer257]

Good observation it does feel like a waltz even though I can really say on on the other. Even so I still love this piece.

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

I totally agree with you Rhisiart, it's totally cool, makes you feel like you're being pulled into the Black Hole itself. ⭐⭐💖🌌🌟🌕

[@edwintam2349]

A dark, slightly off beat Viennese waltz... all dressed in black and macabre, with gorgeous, menacing masks...

[@paulPeasmarsh]

Theres something really creepy about a space ship being drawn into a black hole with only one robot onboard

[@Xillaw]

At 43, this music still gives me the heebie-jeebies. This movie freaked me out to no end when I was a kid.

[@Samfan4Films777]

nice use of words there

[@timberwolf5211]

THANK YOU!!!! I'm SO glad I'm not the only one! lol! I just tried to listen to it again, and NOPE! I still can't listen to it without it creeping me out. I HAD to turn it off, I managed to last less than 20 seconds this time! lol!

[@fast4179]

H.E. Pennypacker I was like star wars...but way darker

[@Spacegoat92]

Frikkin Maximilian...

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

@@Spacegoat92 Scary fucking droid, for sure.

[@oaimportados]

Maximilian Schell inside Maximilian's shell inside Maximilian's Hell... what a matryoshka!!!

[@crimsondynamo615]

Left trapped and helpless in a shell much like what he had done to the crew and his captain. A fitting damnation for one driven mad by his own morbid curiosity.

[@russellspeak3096]

If they ever remake this movie, please keep the same music.

[@goonerash]

Hope they don't remake..

[@cartshort1286]

@@goonerash I think if done right I remake would be amazing

[@Sytijinx]

Yes! By the way, does anyone feel that Ramin Djawadi borrowed heavily from this theme song to compose the theme for Game of Thrones? Just sayin...

[@cartshort1286]

@@RandomNameLastName811 as much as I love the black hole it has some major flaws and a well written remake could be an amazing movie

[@Retrorevelations]

@@cartshort1286 The original film IS actually incredibly well written. It was, in its way, absolutely Disney's attempt to cash in on the success of Star Wars. But thankfully they didn't blatantly rip off that masterpiece, instead making something wholly unique and their own. The Black Hole was a very intelligent, and actually surprisingly very dark film, considering it was produced by Disney (back when they still made good things and weren't yet a soulless Mega-Corp). I don't personally agree that the film has "major flaws". I think it was actually a very well thought out story, and the execution, for its time, was actually state of the art. Could it have been even better? Of course. But I don't think a modern remake, with a ton of CGI and silly modern sensibilities, would be any "better". My one major nitpick about the film, is the incredibly vague, super-bizarre ending sequence. But, then again, that was the artistic choice of the director/etc. at the time. But otherwise, I earnestly do consider this movie not just a classic, but a masterpiece in its own way. One of Disney's best live-action efforts, right up there with 20,000 Leagues, Treasure Island, and Escape to Witch Mountain.

[@danharmon8763]

This was hands down the most original and exctiing Disney movie ever made!! I recommend it to everyone!!

[@raymondstpaul4913]

Am I the only one that wants a mature reboot of this movie?

[@M.ochirecords]

Agreed

[@ianmcck304]

​@raymondstpaul4913 said the same thing usually I hate modern day remakes but with the right cast an producer this could be a real gem, good idea that they could elaborate on etc, better keep this score tho!

[@princessfrank2453]

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[@nickthehatmansmoviehouse2538]

​@raymondstpaul4913 an opinion i like to agree with is "dont remake movies that were good, remake movies that didnt do so well at first and try to fix the problems that movie made and make it better"

[@johnphillips342]

Barry's work where the villian finally finds his own private hell is unforgettable. A genius.

[@debbystardust]

But Maximillian found his heaven!

[@martinmole6159]

One of the most underrated movie of all time. A fantastic soundtrack.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

RIP Maximillian Schell.

[@DrumsTheWord]

What a tune. What a film. What a dark time where childrens entertainment dared to cross over the line into adult subjects. I have fond/dark memories of this movie...and it's music. By the way, John Barry also wrote the theme tune to James Bond...can you tell? Anyone listened to his other Bond themes?

[@stephenboyer8883]

+www.DrumsTheWord.com Yes all good film music, he wrote the arrangement around the guitar part which was written by Monty Norman who holds the copyright.Barry took him to court but Norman won. He gets not a penny for writing those amazing brass parts and string parts. S

[@nonnon8390]

Ride to Atlantis!

[@FuzzyDan]

Goldfinger is one of his best. Listen to "The Laser Beam" from that score. Also, his score from Somewhere In Time is audio gold.

[@ramairgto72]

Gen X will always be a High Point. I seen this as a kid myself, the music was enough, being foreboding.

[@oberkorn13]

@FuzzyDan Yeah, Goldfinger really comes out in this one. Good stuff!

[@gee7633]

This piece really gives me the goose bumps. It's rather creepy but still awesome!

[@thestarranger]

I read your comment just as i got the shivers.

[@thetalesteller6990]

It's even creepier when you watch the movie at 1 am

[@IonScrapper]

This song has never left my head and I don't feel bad because of it

[@WAFFENAMT1]

Same Here....

[@BeukerHarriede]

An earworm for me too.

[@erikt454]

Since that picture of an active Black Hole was released last week, this music has been in my head. I had the soundtrack lp when I was a little kid.

[@TsukiCondor]

R.I.P. John Barry 1933-2011 Best known for the 007 song,this amazing song,and Dances with Wolves Cause of Death: Heart Attack Age:77

[@karenlbellmont6560]

He was an amazing composer. I still cry to Out of Africa.

[@theearthmovesagain]

John Barry was in real and grand creative stride in 1979 / 1980, composing four epic soundtracks: "Moonraker", "The Black Hole", "Raise the Titanic", and "Somewhere in Time". Any one of them could (and should) be considered sublime and a musical master stroke.

[@cheese26611]

You forgot "King Kong" from 1976. While a campy remake, Barry's score was phenomenal.

[@UnknownPersononGoogle]

I just watched a scene from raise the titanic by chance and I recognised the music and instantly looked it up and saw it was the same composer.

[@neilrobinson1956]

The Specialist is an amazing score by John Barry .

[@getreal2977]

Even Star Crash had some really nice themes.

[@jonathanmitchell9886]

His score for 1978's *Game of Death* was fantastic, too--much better than the film deserved!

[@ladycplum]

This movie scared the heck out of me when I was a kid.....especially the scene with Maximillian and the Doctor! And the title still gives me shivers.

[@redzgaming6880]

@The One Free Man Wait, they put him in Star-Wars?

[@richiehopes9313]

When I looked at that first picture of an actual black hole I immediately thought of this musical theme.

[@anthonymelnyk5641]

A great theme song from a great Disney Classic Movie. The music just sends shivers up your spin, very powerful, Thanks John Barry.

[@sigma5054]

john barry ...god of soundtracks

[@KuronekoBonbon]

Rebeltaxi brought me here. Thank you for haunting my nightmares....

[@min._.5940]

+BenMeierTV he's like slenderpastaman

[@emmettturner9452]

We really need an hour+ long edit of this!

[@cuddywifter8386]

When I was 6 I never thought I'd end up being friends with one of the physicists who actually discovered the black hole featured in this movie. Great soundtrack

[@f.herumusu8341]

What a theme, what a movie. A Disney-movie with a cute robot, nearly splatter-scenes and a majestic soundtack by the "master of of the horns"-John Barry.

[@terrycharnley]

I can remember this movie showing on tv long, long ago and I loved it. I found it fascinating, creepy, mysterious, epic, all of the above. I have just ordered the movie on U.S. dvd. Criminal how it has never seen a decent general blu ray release. I would like to know why. The music as well is incredible. As an all round package, this movie pretty much has everything. What an amazing job Disney did with this, it is so underrated.

[@scott-richards]

love for someone to make a game or something using this soundtrack. it's too good to just be forgotten.

[@jonnycat5083]

This is a classic movie! Well written and well acted! 5 stars way up! The music in this film is timeless and really epic! John Barrry had a gift from God to make epic awesome music!

[@cartshort1286]

This is my favorite movie

[@seaningram4434]

I remember seeing this in the movie theater :) Loved It :) That scene where Maximillian shred through that book and into Anthony Perkins's character scared me when I saw it.

[@davidhammond3033]

A hugely underrated film and score. It cleverly foreshadows the inevitable journey into the black hole of the title, and has the same hypnotic pull of the score for Vertigo. Wonderful stuff, illustrating the talent and genius of John Barry.

[@morganjack18]

imagine this but with a black hole like the one that was photographed recently

[@seanwheat4078]

No Joke, I was listening to this right as January 1st, 2020 came in and all my neighbors were shooting off fireworks.

[@crimsondynamo615]

A surprisingly apocalyptic creepy theme for such a year as 2020

[@asdfjklo234]

Unforgettable theme, along with the fly-by of the dark spaceship. I love that sci-fi horror atmosphere, in films such as Alien, Event Horizon, games such as Dead Space... In a sense, awe and fear are perhaps the two typical emotions when you think of confronting the Universe.

[@taichi29]

One of my all time favorite movies.

[@Brecconable]

We meet again Mr Bond!

[@star_phoenixproductions3849]

+Brecconable lol. Yes, we do. Blofeld. Woah,woah. YOU SURVIVED GETTING DROPPED DOWN A CHIMNEY?!?!

[@TheForsakenSentry]

Jeez. This song is intense.

[@blusmahn]

In this soundtrack there are a few musical passages heard later in Barry's Dances with Wolves Soundtrack !

[@VicGeorge2K6]

The Waltz (Disney) Of Doom.

[@deacondavis5098]

VicGeorge2K6 So True!!!!

[@ManicOpake]

VY Canis Majoris!

[@zecle]

we all came from this video.

[@coosoorlog]

yes! oh yes! yes!!!

[@shayjamz]

comparing planetssss

[@scrib-04]

Me too. It took me a while as it lists the blade runner end credits in the description

[@Scuti2]

Stepsion Or What Ever

[@asphen2106]

Saw them in Cinema 1979...Never forget the Melodie... THX John Barry

[@YootoobSteve123]

Great theme! Majestic and mysterious.

[@acrovader]

Nope.

[@gamedad1984]

I Love This Film And Theme Very Nostalgic And Dark.. Thanks For Posting This Masterpiece..

[@nosorab3]

Why Do You Capitalize Every Word? Seems Like A Lot Of Effort For No Reason.

[@dededefan]

I just realized that the very beginning of this tune is very similar to the beginning of Gustav Holst's Saturn, from his symphony "The Planets" !

[@maxauburn]

Loving this!

[@ThunderZandor]

Cute robots and crew meet EVIL on a derelict spaceship. For some reason that combination worked. Much like the jubilant music of the heroes & the dark haunting score gave it a unique feel to the film. On another note (lol), the ending of the movie is meant to be interpretive and not some concrete answer that far too many people complain about. It suppose to make you think..duh!

[@StevePicaGCT]

Captures the awe and mystery of outer space perfectly! Great theme.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

It reminds me, also, of some of John Barry's older James Bond scores.

[@JoeyLevenson]

Still love it. I have a small collection of TBH toys, vintage and modern. Everyone asks what they are.

[@John-pw8is]

Download this film again to see if it would have the same effect as it did all those years ago, and watching it at 5am in the morning,it was like being a child again. john barry certainly knew how to capture the very essence of his subject matter, what an imagination, to capture the power of a black hole in his music.

[@jjs777fzr]

I have this from the Telarc catalog cd's, Awesome.

[@subtlefire7256]

There was this one BBC documentary about supermassive black holes that I was obsessed with as a child and this soundtrack was used in it. It was only years later that I watched this movie for the first time and realised where the music came from.

[@myncesackcloth8893]

Reminds me of how I always think of what it's like to meet a woman in your lifetime!!

[@laurencehubbard5240]

Rewatched this a month back, still one of my absolute favourites. Awesome, ominous tone.

[@fityou12]

You gotta hand it to these genius movie score composers, they really know how to convey emotion through symphony orchestra music. I couldn’t imagine more appropriate or ominous accompaniment music for watching a passing black hole as it consumes the planets, asteroids, sun, and all the matter in our solar system. (Kind of like a space Nero) Maurice Jarre was one of these geniuses; he composed the music for the 1962 movie “Lawrence of Arabia” for which he won an academy award, and in my opinion is the greatest movie music score of all time.

[@lujonb62kevbar41]

Hearing this in the theater was awesome!!!

[@RM2011ish]

God, I'd give ANYTHING to see Disney remake this. I know they'll most likely mess it up, but I still wanna see them try.

[@nickp2271]

My uncle had this film on tape. When he died, it was given to my dad.

[@txknightrider82]

We need a remake of this movie ASAP !! with twice the action and more terror as the ship approaches the black hole !!

[@petercampi2840]

SID KNIGHT It's already in the works by the same director and team that brought us Tron: Legacy.

[@darrkstarg]

SID KNIGHT This would make an excellent remake, I hope they do it well...

[@petercampi2840]

darrkstarg Me too, but until then, there's a butt-lode of awesome movies to watch in 2015 like Star Wars The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road, Jurassic World, Terminator Genesys, Harbinger Down, Stung, Fire City: Interpreter of Signs and Tremors 5: Bloodlines. And that's not including the movies coming out in 2016 like WarCraft the movie, Independence Day 2 and a host of others.

[@carloselgreco8924]

One of the spookiest 70ies Disney Si Fi Films. Freaked my Childhood.

[@myrnalaboy2840]

R.I.P. John Barry.

[@callumxmcgowan]

Simply brilliant! Flawless!

[@MacrossMike]

Love this tune,John Barry,what a maestro he was.

[@michaelkelley4188]

Totally terrific score!👏❤️ Love it!👍

[@Pgcmoore]

rip Robert, thanks for all your work

[@nichtsschlagteinenastronau7782]

Great. Thank you! Greetings from Germany!

[@OPTIMUSPRIME-nj1qq]

John Barry also did the score for King Kong 1976. I still have the vinyls of the soundtrack when I got them as a kid in 1976, 19779.

[@zorglub667]

such a great, wonderful theme. outstanding.

[@Electrologue]

I havn't seen this movie in a lonnngg, long time! But this soundtrack brings back so many memories of how dark and mysterious the film came across! Its persuaded me to buy the movie after all these years and re-watch it, can't wait! Thanks for uploading this awesome soundtrack!

[@gingerfella2011]

Wow mega memory flashback! Loved this movie!

[@gwaranoid75]

A real masterpiece of music. Gives me goosebumps everytime i hear it !

[@templarseries]

Fantastic score by Barry again, especially this iconic part. The one thing I recall about this movie,followed by maximillian and Roddy McDowell's wee robot! Great stuff,thanks for posting.

[@utubularutubelover4363]

PHENOMENAL COMPOSITION! AS A CHILD, AND YET STILL NOW-GREATLY LOVE-APPRECIATE THIS TALENT WORK MATERPIECE! ;-}

[@crawlervideo]

Wow search this tune for a long time! Amazing music!

[@hardlines4]

Beautiful!

[@ednguyen3822]

James Bond, Walkabout, The Black Hole. Boy, John Barry could really create highly memorable film soundtracks!

[@anthonyellis3855]

That music is awesome!!!!!!

[@wearemikej]

I was 5 (1978) when I saw this movie. This movie made me fall in love with sci-fi.

[@choppermagoo6154]

John Barry is the man !!

[@JulianPope]

Glad people recognize the greatness of this score (and the underrated nature of the movie), 1k up and only 10 down? Very nice.

[@carlleblanc1660]

That movie has always given me the creep ever since i saw it as a kid.

[@norm1815]

Loved this movie as a kid!!

[@Camop-iz9kt]

I'm SO glad I bought this CD when it came out.

[@Samfan4Films777]

The music always gives me goosebumps,

[@mohanicus]

what a fuckin class piece of music.

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

I was 4 yrs old. First film I remember seeing in the cinema. Dad was a huge Maximilian Schell fan since Judgement At Nuremberg

[@bigwoklun]

Love this theme. Brilliant

[@TheAlienGangster]

I’ve heard this song before. I think I heard it in a science video on early KZbin.

[@billstellar3241]

10/10 recommend listening to this with the classic "live and let die" by paul mccartknee XD

[@phoebereekie5567]

+gayphanfics i tested this out. wasn't a fan. pls don't becum a DJ

[@billstellar3241]

+meow cheow i sincerely appolagize for any displeasure i hav caused to you. i'll make sure my DJing won't be in your country :) have a good day and stay young and wild

[@robertszvetics210]

+planetaryjosh drug addict

[@phoebereekie5567]

+robert szvetics robert why

[@dvddmc]

if they do remake this I hope they dont screw it up. I still love the original and think its just fine the way it is. I think Tim Curry would make a Great Dr. Rhineheart

[@MrWraith069]

Love this piece

[@powerONdelta]

Holy frick NOSTALGIA!

[@WorgenGrrl]

How many of you see the recent image of a Black Hole and had this tune in your head?

[@ayaaltamimie8911]

Im sure half of us spent about 9 years looking for this soundtrack from the planet size vid

[@kcgrappler]

Good point - it's not really a fair comparison. I like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Black Hole - but each is unique and stands on its own. I don't usually make comparisons.

[@luckyman3988]

I just watched this movie, and the theme was hovering around the edge of memory - when I saw John Barry - I got it. This theme reminds me of Thunderball.

[@keysersoze375]

Truly a maestro beyond Sir John Barry

[@bricharloe4337]

SPINNING, PULLING, DREADING, HYPNOTIC & MYSTERIOUS. I get dizzy. A MUSICAL GENIUS that will be SO MISSED.

[@coquijean]

still here 9/2020...THE THEME SONG FOR THIS YEAR

[@dbsommers1]

Like the intro to 'The Thing' this opening theme is timeless and evokes the right imagery of what is to come.

[@chrismayer3919]

The film flopped at the box office, but this motion picture score was one of John Barry’s best work!

[@chrismayer3919]

It might not have flopped if they’d left out the weird Heaven/Hell sequence at the end… not everyone in the world is Christian

[@Biriades]

great music !!

[@dmana3172]

This the greatest movie I have ever witnessed. I can't wait to travel to the black hole for real.