Tinker Tailor

Three CD set. 64-track box set of post mod grooves and heavy British R&B. Focussing on music from the late 1960s and early 1970s that avoided Tolkien-esque fantasy and flower power, instead drawing inspiration from the jazz, blues and soul music of black America. This musical journey takes the listener from the heavy Hammond organ groove of Deep Purple's US hit 'Hush' to CCS's funky 'Brother' via British blues from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack, jazz rock from Manfred Mann Chapter Three, The Johnny Almond Music Machine and Satisfaction and the soulful vocals of Stevie Winwood, Sharon Tandy and Rod Stewart. Key artists include Deep Purple, Sharon Tandy (backed by Fleur de Lys), Small Faces, Faces, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck (with Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood), Georgie Fame, Stevie Winwood with both The Spencer Davis Group and Traffic, Mighty Baby, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Blodwyn Pig and Graham Bond. Many musicians here had been through the British R&B and soul scenes including Satisfaction's Derek Griffiths and Deep Purple's Jon Lord and Keef Hartley with The Artwoods, Jeff Beck with The Yardbirds and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and Rod Stewart with Steampacket while Mighty Baby had evolved from The Action and Spooky Tooth from The V.I.P.s.

The MacGuffin that starts Skyfall rolling is a hard drive containing an encrypted list of all covert agents embedded with terrorist organizations. Someone has stolen it, and Bond (Daniel Craig, on his third outing) is leading a team in Istanbul to recover it. His chief support is a new field agent named Eve (Naomie Harris), who, on direct orders from M (Judi Dench), risks a shot at the operative who stole the list, a sleek assassin known as Patrice (Ola Rapace), and hits Bond instead. Bond plunges into a raging river and is presumed dead. Patrice escapes with the list.

This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with the social issues of a globalized world.