sentences:  Barry's score for the film has stylistic similarities to that of "Diamonds Are Forever" - which had marked a gradual transition away from the heavy horn based sound of his 1960s Bond scores to a smoother, string based sound.The film was also the first to drop the distinctive plucked guitar from the Bond theme heard over the gun barrel sequence - in all subsequent John Barry James Bond scores, this theme would be heard on strings and trumpet.Not present on the album but heard in the film is a brief reprise, for recognition purposes, of the song "Live and Let Die" when a character (Sheriff JW Pepper) from the previous film reappears.