John Barry - Walkabout (1971) main title theme

[@jona826]

This is in my opinion the most beautiful piece of music ever written.

[@ptz593443x]

I agree

[@ianmcnicol6425]

Nothing better...although Morricone's Lolita, Malena and Cinema Paradiso are up there on Mount Olympus with this. I love this so much...it brings tears to my eyes. Every time I play it...I have to go somewhere private to let it out.

[@josephclift3662]

@@ianmcnicol6425 makes me cry, too

[@vicsaul5459]

Mine too, out of Africa 🌍 is a close 2nd

[@orbitalforest]

Tend to agree .

[@roryobrien2318]

Why do i cry, every time i hear this piece?

[@manofmanyinterests]

It strikes a chord, every time.

[@davidhubbert9445]

Your not alone music grabs our emotions.

[@railwaystationmaster]

Once experienced never forgotten .

[@johnnymac8680]

A beautiful film and perfectly cast. At the time Jenny Agutter was my dream girl.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

They will never be a composer like John again RIP

[@MrMymanalishi]

Despite all the conflicts, there is still beauty out there.

[@mcaardvark42]

PERFECT MUSIC, PERFECT FILM, PERFECT WOMAN. No more to say.

[@johnbelcher7164]

Outstanding Woman and the Movie

[@o00o0oo0]

第一次看此片是上中学时，央视播出删减版。片尾那段诗歌念白时，父亲说这片子拍得真棒。我那时懵懂中也觉得这个电影很特别，有一些心灵上的触动。我长大后有了网络，我又结婚，离婚。北上广深最后回到家乡。无意间找到片源，下载重温，才真正看懂它的深意，从此收藏在电脑中。而今我的父亲年已古稀，罹患肺癌。今天不经意间翻看以往回复，又来到这里。当音乐响起，眼泪不争气的流下来。电影中的小男孩，其实就是导演的儿子。而我的父亲，也是一名默默无闻的电影工作者。人生就像一场电影，我有一位出家的师父，他曾对我说，我们每个人，都在一边演电影，一边看电影，我们各自创造者世界的一个小小角落，而当我们离去时，电影会继续。

[@tonybrumfield2925]

I was 13 when I saw this film. I am 66 now and this movie, and this song brings me to tears every time. I have asked my wife to play this song at my memorial service.

[@frizwhiz1090]

Saw this aged 7, left a permanent mark.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Hits you like a ton of bricks memories that no one can take from you

[@AbbaFan-ib4sf]

Incredible film. Once seen never forgotten.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Tears for a place i cannot ever go back to

[@IgorSPopovich]

The most beautiful and haunting melody ever ... fills you with such longing ... it's almost too painful to listen to!

[@weehubbyable]

Am i the only one who gets tearful when i hear this beautiful music? tugs at the heartstrings .

[@briancarr4607]

No it's so beautiful

[@taroman7100]

I get that way over Movieola.

[@nigelwillson8000]

The tears are back

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Tears for those blue remembered hills

[@MrNooneseesme]

Ohh I so agree. This is one the saddest endings to a film I have ever felt. Even now just watching the very end, still has a lump in throat and tears in my eyes - its the combination with the reading of that poem. God its just sooo sooo sad. My heart cries

[@Random-yd7oh]

which poem?

[@jezza73]

@@Random-yd7oh It's part of "A Shropshire Lad" by A.E.. Houseman.

[@christopherraymond4826]

...this film...like lost youth...purely bittersweet... memories sustain...

[@therealKINDLE]

I truly miss this era for its emotional scores of this caliber. They never shy'd away from being frank & open about emotions. We live in an era of disconnect now. So it's no surprise to me that I keep going back.. even to times before I was born.

[@mcveigh2k624]

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

[@o00o0oo0]

令人记忆深刻

[@mikeanndavis]

Who is the poet?

[@mcveigh2k624]

@@mikeanndavis A E Housman

[@mikeanndavis]

Thanks

[@anthonydavis5679]

I feel for Mike.

[@xyxoan1]

Combined with the visuals from the film, it can reduce the most macho of men to tears. Simply unforgettable. Stunning! I saw it at the drive-in would you believe, and I have not forgotten it to this day.

[@markfurnell6748]

I'm a 64 year old man....and cry every time. It is the loss of innocence. The scene at the billabong is like Eden....now lost.

[@strawberry1025]

Now trapped in suburban life she remembers the wild freedom she had..... Heartbreaking music.

[@markfurnell6748]

nails it.

[@Ninzumecha]

Heartbreaking, heartwarming, nostalgia… I love this song and movie

[@CrapheadMoleman]

It's wonderful but it isn't a song.

[@Ninzumecha]

@@CrapheadMoleman no need to be pedantic, I hope your day gets better

[@MassiveChetBakerFan]

I cry every time I hear this, without fail.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Thankyou dear John sad but beautiful and very nostalgic

[@benweidner1]

this pulled the tears right out of me, thinking of the beauty and sorrow of life

[@josephclift3662]

Does it to me, too

[@antonioescobar1335]

Exactly

[@iniquity123]

It's crazy how certain notes in the correct order can reduce one to a blubbering wreck. Handel's Largo tears me up too....

[@childrenofminervaofficial4316]

It does that because it hits the listener right in the heart. One of the finest pieces of music evwr.

[@pdfarrelly]

John Barry is an amazing artist. I fell in love with this score the first time i saw walkabout when i was around 15. Nearly 30 years later it never fails to move me. Incredible, beautiful. Words can never do it justice. Play it at my funeral.

[@TheGmcFilms]

Saw a little snippet of this film tonight on the telly and it brought back so many memories of the film education i experienced back then, In those days the BBC played Fellini, Fassbinder, Nic Roeg, Bertolucci, Peter Weir, Antonioni, Sergio Leone...The list was endless. I was about ten or eleven when this was shown and its one of those films you never forget. Mind you, you ask most fifteen to twenty year olds today who those people are above and they do not have a clue...Sad really...G...

[@alecportnoy1989]

Nichalos Roeg died today. In 1971, I had my Mom drive me to the classic Art Deco Hackensack Fox theater to see "Walkabout" at age 11. My life was changed at that tender age by the beauty of the visually-rich drama. The film is full of gorgeous images, fascinating soundscapes, and quietly disturbing scenes that create an evocative and powerful piece of art and commentary. Walkabout is a rite of passage filled with upsetting series of events meant to comment on the contrasts between Western and traditional cultures, as well as the loss of innocence. I never looked at the world the same way again. Roeg, who mastered panoramic visuals that were somehow very intimate, filmic techniques that produced jarring contrasts through editing, sound recording, and narrative third person camera language that placed you in the center of the action. Certainly one of my all time favorite cinematic storytellers that has a film resume with some of the most revolutionary 70s movies ever made. "Dont Look Now", "Bad Timing" and of course possibly the greatest film of the 70s "The Man Who Fell To Earth".. A great loss. Gods Speed Mr. Roeg. Thank you for your art and masterful storytelling. We wont see your like again soon....

[@aralsea1]

Your mom was awesome for doing that.

[@sabesanswaminathan]

What a beautiful tune. John Barry is a true genius.

[@1010kray1010]

Played this at my mums funeral. Eleven years ago today. Powerful, moving and just a little forlorn. Dream happy dreams mum...

[@stevedunphy2848]

Beautiful choice, I chose James Taylor's "You can close your eyes" at my Mum's cremation 10 years ago. It's impossible to convey the power & emotional impact music has on every individual, but it soothes all our souls at times like these & like absent loved ones, is eternal. Best wishes.

[@nigelwillson8000]

I’m going to have it at mine!!!!

[@MassiveChetBakerFan]

Just a LITTLE forlorn?

[@garywilliams1194]

Very profound tribute to your Mother

[@peterscobbie2716]

It's good music for a funeral. Sad but not overly so. It lifts the spirit in a way. I listen to it quite often.

[@lhyde44]

Saw the film years ago but didn't remember the theme. How could i have forgotten something as beautiful as this!!!!

[@davidangus582]

What a film, beautiful scenery, amazing sound effects and this theme music: such a beautiful accompaniment to the the land of lost content, reminding me of my own lost loves, bringing tears to my eyes. Jenny Agutters look at the end says it all.

[@MrNooneseesme]

John Barry at his finest composing. The film is a beautiful classic all the way through. The ending with this and the poem just hits such sadness and such a sense of loss - within me, never mind the film characters. God its just so sad.

[@josephclift3662]

I see you, I feel you. Love, from London

[@Andres_2307]

What a beauty. Absolutely wonderful. Regards. ❤️❤️🌹🌹❤️❤️

[@darrenallison9236]

'Agutter's face at the end of the film is heartbreaking' - Absolutely spot on - wonderful film, stunning score, we miss movie music like this, we miss Barry, simple...

[@sandramorey2529]

Her face says it all. What an adventure this young girl and her brother had & what an amazing encounter with a young man earning his manhood by doing his required Walkabout. She'll never forget it, and she will never mention it either. Leaves you with an uncentered feeling about settler colonials' worlds.

[@darrenallison9236]

@@sandramorey2529 you're so right Sandra (sorry had wrong account lol)

[@threemanthreeman5516]

@@sandramorey2529 more about regret,guilt & passing of youth, no?

[@vicsaul5459]

John Barry last album is called Eternal Echoes. This is his lesser known Masterpiece, as is this Film , his music echoes in eternity. R.I.P Maestro.. The poem at the end of this film inspired a song I wrote many moons 🌙 ago... My soul forever restless.. My heart will always stray... To the times that never come again... Like love... One Summers Day

[@noeljohnson868]

There'll probably never be another movie made, like Walkabout, ever...

[@markfurnell6748]

Yes...it's uniquely beautiful!!

[@fernald10]

Wonderful score - it never fails to move me. That closing scene is especially powerful.

[@markfurnell6748]

the loss of Eden...

[@Hashpotato]

If there's ever a song that so evocatively recalls your childhood and more innocent times, it's this one. Just wish it didn't make me feel so sad. He truly was a genius.

[@calderarecords]

+Hashpotato What's so bad about feeling sad? You should treasure it! I love feeling sadness. I understand that it is the greatest of all emotions; it teaches us the value of all things priceless. You don't see animals crying with tears.. only humans can understand the overwhelming beauty that all things lost, gone or unattainable inflicts upon us. As the old poem goes.. "I Love & Hate. Why I do this perhaps you ask? I do not know. But I sense it happening & I am tortured".

[@steveblanco7494]

+Caldera Records .Yes this piece is beautifully sad and you my friend Caldera are a Poet. J B wrote wonderful emotional music.Just wish the angry World would listen to more of this.

[@calderarecords]

Steve Blanco You are too kind! I only wish I was! But I am only a mere peasant at best. Nothing last forever I'm sorry to confess. However, John's art has survived so far, & shall more than likely outlive all alive today. If you like sad music & want to hear something a little more modern, you may (or may not!) allow Ólafur Arnalds to grow on you. I recommend 3 titles: Fök, This Place Was A Shelter, & For Now I Am Winter. Trust me, he is mixing Classical & Clandestine Synthesizers as John did. ;)

[@RobSinclaire]

John Barry - Somewhere In Time (Original) Aldo Pastrana

[@davidchamberlain5425]

Hashpotato He left us a lot of wonderful music r.I.p.j.b

[@junkyardangel2]

The look of what she's left behind on Jenny Agutters face at the end of the film is heartbreaking

[@chillbuddy4178]

frank crisp you put it so well... That's it

[@niallmorrissey3715]

She has become a shell. It is one of the most awful things I've seen in film.

[@1whamster]

One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever created that captures the essence of the world through the eyes of the enlightened

[@Poeme340]

lovely👍

[@deborahboomer9598]

This almost rips my heart out.....spectacularly gorgeous, but heart wrenching. Since I viewed in 1971.....one of my all time favourite films and scores!

[@flybywir1]

Beautiful, haunting music by the great John Barry takes me right back to those blue remembered hills.......

[@Dreadtower]

This film, and music, often makes me cry. Here is the excerpt from Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' which is quoted at the end of the film whilst the theme plays: Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

[@vicsaul5459]

That's the one, you cannot come again

[@nickstoli]

Mystical, haunting, profound, beautiful.

[@stevenkirby3239]

Jay Quintana my sentiments entirelysums up much of his output

[@brickpaverr]

This most maginificent theme song and the feelings that only John Barry could capture.

[@stevenpayne984]

I hope they will play this one at my funeral, along with a reading of ‘Blue Remembered Hills’

[@chrispick9899]

had the same idea several years ago and the first time someone can see the beauty of the piece very reflective

[@Thornus_______]

I love the film especially that last shot when Jenny is looking at camera. The moment of innocence that you left behind and cannot get back beautifully poetic.

[@nicfewer8393]

51 don't like this, Why? Why are there always people who don't like something for NO good reason?

[@fudgeidi3795]

It’s most likely bots

[@stevedunphy2848]

a quiet, subtle example of the incredible power of music,deeply moving.

[@dennismueller784]

What a beautiful. Melody I love it and loved the movie too. Aida

[@bradfordquigley69]

I saw this film as a child, too many years to remember, but this music and the poem by A.E.Housman, it sends a shudder down my spine and a longing for events and people in the past, warm memories that will never come again!

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Thank you John beautiful piece of music

[@strawberry1025]

John Barry has left us so much beauty to enjoy. How wonderful to have been able to do that

[@Dlj71]

Stunning!😊

[@ZEDUser]

....you could go away from this music for years & years, & come back to it & all that time would have stood still. As if nothing had changed & you came back to your roots. It truly is a gifted piece of music.

[@donnak612]

Amazing film!! I saw it in an art house in LA 25 years ago. Blew me away!

[@dominique2693]

So beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.Suddenly-i feel, now I can remember..

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

I'm sure your no loser you love beautiful emotional music

[@leightoncharlesstudioengla2876]

Maybe the most beautiful orchestration in the history of music. John Barry you have me in tears.

[@arima5657]

Indeed.

[@jaine000]

Tugs so hard at my heart ... I get lost in this piece... So so moving .

[@johnwilliams2920]

It's so beautiful that I can't put into words how my heart feels when I hear it....

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Wow didn't realise how beautiful this was!

[@hsiadarb8062]

Pure perfection personified, beautiful music with an innocence of youth that resonates today.

[@lorrainemartin7320]

I totally agree its so beautiful it makes me cry and the film is so sad to.the girl only realises what she had and how happy she was yrs later a masterpiece

[@MrNooneseesme]

OH SO MUCH SO, BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO SEE THE FILM FIRST AND ONCE SEEN, LIFE WILL NEVER BE QUITE THE SAME BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE VERY VERY RARE FILMS THAT TOUCHES THE PERST THAT NO OTHER DO ESPECIALLY AT THE END. FAIR BRINGS A TEAR TO THE EYE

[@Plazmapants188]

How can you thumb this down , bloody beautiful, drift slowly on air with golden memories 💖

[@ianmcnicol6425]

I love Ennio Morricone...and I always imagine him listening to this...closing his eyes and nodding gently in appreciation at the beauty of this.

[@nigelfoster7612]

John barry could say more about life and the human condition in a glorious three minute melody than most so called classical composers ,fail to achieve in an hour long symphony . They say no one is irreplaceable in this world but john you certainly are . You were a truly life enhancing human being, your wonderful music will live on into eternity B

[@dangiambrone7350]

One of the best comments that I have read in a long time.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

I agree love John's ability to evoke so much emotion

[@Kyle-ur4mr]

Nice sentiment but kind of dumb to bring in the composers who wrote hour-long symphonies lol

[@corinnalafarouche]

This is truly a masterpiece.

[@briansomerfield1785]

To say this man was a genius is truly an understatement. His music is so moving. Every score he wrote suited the situation. I know it isn't manly but his music certainly brings a lump to my throat.

[@JohnsOrganWorks]

This would get my vote for the best film theme ever.

[@e-care-books9867]

One movie critic called this movie a "mind massage," and the music is AT LEAST 50 percent of that!

[@johnlang8275]

Still listening.

[@jvig7353]

Mine too. Definitely the most heart-breaking.

[@shane-irish]

One of john barry best

[@desertguy395]

This is so haunting......

[@juliuscaesare2666]

Beautiful movie..

[@kaybells7757]

I always think of my late mam and dad when I play this song and sob my heart out but I think it does me good.x

[@petergibbs6039]

Kay bells I am with you peter

[@nigelwillson8000]

my eyes are filling, again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Winterov]

Me too lol

[@noeljohnson868]

...and mine...

[@michelleybach]

Mine too :'(

[@ianmcnicol6425]

I just cant find the words to describe this. I struggle to hold back the tears every time I hear it.

[@jamesnankervis8029]

Same here.

[@noeljohnson868]

Evokes memories of being truly alive...and so long ago...

[@juliaread8980]

Never fails to move me to tears. The soundtrack transports me back to my childhood. Such an emotive film, beautifully filmed and an absolute stunning and haunting soundtrack by the late great John Barry.

[@Lauraajrallim]

PERFECTION! Thank you John Barry...

[@davesiddall5168]

Absolutely gorgeous music.

[@molbiol94]

into my heart an air that kills from yon far country blows, what are those blue remembered hills, what farms, what spires are those, that is the land of lost content, i see it shining plain, the happy highways were i went, and cannot come again. A. E. Housman

[@64andyjh]

What to add to the comments already made about this spectacularly heart wrenching piece of music? Everything you've all said. It still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Loved the film didn't understand it but lt facinated me just discovered that yet again a piece of music l Loved was by Barry one of my special composers this as happened to me a few times Rip genius John

[@nickstoli]

Haunting, mesmerizing, beautiful... just some of the words to describe the power of this music. Alas, I lack the vocabulary to give full justice to John Barry's score.

[@bobwoodrow322]

Excellent. You said it all. Exactly my own thoughts.

[@stephenrossiter9431]

Beautiful music.... John Barry is the best in the business..... RIP maestro...

[@philiphalpenny9761]

So beautiful. This would make a philistine weep...

[@jojamful]

Absolutely beautiful music and film!

[@elaspo]

***** "Back to nature".

[@jrb1802uk]

Brilliant Score, Brilliant Composer. Brilliant Film.

[@ralphrobbins6452]

Reminds me of the childhood I missed out on,, more times than I care to remember I was beaten by my father who I loved so much and admired, sadly I was unable to satisfy his want for success from all of his offspring. Many years later when he was suffering from Alzeimers I managed to find my real father, a kind, loving, gentle, intelligent man who I have now missed for 16 years. With tears streaming down my face,I would like to thank John Barry and if I may, dedicate this fantastic song to all you lovely people out there who have been misunderstood and to any child that is at present going through the traumas that I did. It does get better as time passes but I do wish I'd been hugged instead of beaten.

[@jrb1802uk]

Ralph Robbins Sad story man. :(

[@vintagebrew1057]

No words, just tears....

[@shane-irish]

It sure does

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

So sorry for your unhappy childhood hope you have peace ln the rest of your life

[@liasoetje2531]

Hear, Hear Ralph. Well done.

[@consumerwarrior1267]

Up until now, I didn't know that John Barry provided the music to this movie. Darn! This man's musical talent is like legendary.

[@aralsea1]

So incredible!

[@mikeance]

I first saw Walkaout on tv at random. I had previously never heard of it, and I was just mesmerized... by the music, photography... the poem... by Jenny. I saw it a few more times on tv, and it just completely continued to mesmerize me, and then I saw the uncut version on the big screen at a revival house. I just love this movie.

[@jorgejuarezportillo2833]

Tears in my eyes...

[@zaneclone]

Magical score and movie.... both still as captivating as ever....

[@weehubbyable]

One of the best film themes ever absolutely beautiful.

[@namigm9559]

I can hear the good memories , love and humanity in this music.

[@TH3PH3N0M3NON]

Dreadtower: I'm in agreement with you. I absolutely LOVE that poem at the end of the film while John Barry's score just simply SOARS!

[@TheKodiakbare]

You could write beautiful poetry listening to this music.

[@nickhirst999]

Beautiful

[@TempleOfWisdom]

Hits you right in the heart.Sublime.