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Live And Let Die single artwork - Wings

Written by: Paul McCartney , Linda McCartney
Recorded: October 1972
Producer: George Martin

Released: 1 June 1973 (UK), 18 June 1973 (US)

Paul McCartney: vocals, piano
Linda McCartney: backing vocals, keyboards
Denny Laine: bass guitar, backing vocals
Henry McCullough: guitar
Denny Seiwell: drums

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Saw that no one had talked about this song yet, this might be my favorite McCartney song. I am a James Bond nerd, so that might be why… But really, this song is just perfect as a Bond theme!

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Another Bond need right here. If you see Paul live, its fantastic when he does this song. He sets up a huge rig of explosions. I could feel the heat from 100 yards away!

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sir walter raleigh said
Another Bond need right here. If you see Paul live, its fantastic when he does this song. He sets up a huge rig of explosions. I could feel the heat from 100 yards away!  

Goodness gracious, you have no idea how much I would love to go to a Macca (or Ringo) concert! Even if I only got to hear this song, I would die happy. Alas, none of his tour stops have been anywhere near me!

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We may see some dates soon. I wish you luck. I pray he comes back to the Southeast.

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I really like the Wings song Live And Let Die , it’s got a pretty good feel. Recently, I heard the Guns N’ Roses cover of the song. I must say, I really like the heavier take on it. Original still good… but kinda loving the Guns N’ Roses cover.

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I recommend (for the sake of the lovely mods) you use the pre-existing thread https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..d-let-die/

Personally I think Paul does it better live than the studio version…

 

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I have never seen this song (or any song a-hard-days-night-paul-10) live, but @AppleScruffJunior posted a video of Paul performing it in the Freshen Up thread, and the pyrotechnics were incredible.

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The song works well for Bond because it works in a lot of appropriate moods. Danger, adventure and romance. My favourite part is easily the slowed down “you used to say live and let live….” section just before the end.

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Paul was asked for You Gave Me the Answer: ‘Live and Let Die’ 50th Anniversary Special!
“Are there any particularly memorable performances of the song that you can remember?”

He replied:

Yes! In the early days of doing it with all the explosions, I remember this very old lady at the front. At a guess, I’d maybe say she was ninety or something. She was loving the show, and I’d started singing the opening lines of the song, ‘When you were young, and your heart was an open book…’ But then I looked at her and thought, ‘Oh God ! We’re going to kill her! What do we do?’ I carried on and got to the crucial bit, ‘Say Live And Let Die ’ and… BOOM! The explosions went off. I sheepishly looked over, expecting the worst, and she was going, ‘Yeah!’ She was loving it! So, we didn’t kill her; we thrilled her!

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Been on a Bond marathon lately. Lots of great themes, (Carly Simon/Gladys Knight/Chris Cornell, a-Ha, Shirley Bassey, etc) but Paul takes the cake. The breakdown in the song (“what does it matter to ya?”) is downright filthy, and the the main theme is just perfect to be interwoven with the main Bond theme in the soundtrack. Truly one of the great rock songs of all time. Paul absolutely knocked it out of the park on this one. 

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sir walter raleigh said
Been on a Bond marathon lately. Lots of great themes, (Carly Simon/Gladys Knight/Chris Cornell, a-Ha, Shirley Bassey, etc) but Paul takes the cake. The breakdown in the song (“what does it matter to ya?”) is downright filthy, and the the main theme is just perfect to be interwoven with the main Bond theme in the soundtrack. Truly one of the great rock songs of all time. Paul absolutely knocked it out of the park on this one. 

I think Paul has said that he chose to arrange that bridge with a kind of reggae style, as a way of referencing the film’s Jamaican setting.

I enjoy “Live And Let Die “; but I have to say that George Martin’s orchestral arrangement of the fast instrumental parts is my favourite aspect of the entire record, I think it really elevated Paul’s song. It’s interesting to hear it as maybe the first song Paul ever had to write “to order”, with a lyric that necessarily had to mirror the kill-or-be-killed miliieu of the secret-agent – pretty far from his typical subject matter! 

(Also, I wonder if the song’s title of “Live And Let Die ” was similarly a requirement; or if Paul was given freedom to think of something different, yet chose to go the way he did? What was the first Bond theme that wasn’t the film’s title, anyways, was that 1977’s “Nobody Does It Better” or had it happened earlier? I’ve only seen a single handful from the whole series…)

Also, something that just occurred to me, is that the next time Paul was called upon to write a movie title song, a dozen years later, it was once again for a movie about spies! (I’ve definitely never seen the allegedly dreadful “Spies Like Us”, but remember the single, which was pretty bad too – although Paul employing hip-hop touches demonstrated that he was pretty on-the-ball for 1985)

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(Also, I wonder if the song’s title of “Live And Let Die ” was similarly a requirement; or if Paul was given freedom to think of something different, yet chose to go the way he did? What was the first Bond theme that wasn’t the film’s title, anyways, was that 1977’s “Nobody Does It Better” or had it happened earlier? I’ve only seen a single handful from the whole series…)

  

Dr. No (1962) doesn’t have a title song at all and the Bond theme plays over the opening credits. On Her Majesty ‘s Secret Service (1969) also has an instrumental piece over the opening credits and Louis Armstrongs’ We Have all the Time in the World, which is used prominently later in the film, is sometimes considered to be like a title song, but the instrumental piece is actually called the On Her Majesty ‘s Secret Service theme. So yes, the first Bond song with a different title was Nobody Does it Better (1977), followed only by All Time High (1983) and Writing’s on the Wall (2015). EDIT: I’m an idiot. You Know My Name (2006) and Another Way To Die (2008) as well of course. paul-mccartney-facepalm_gif

I’m a hardcore Bond fan since I was ten, so LALD was not only the first Paul song I knew, I probably knew it before any Beatles song. I’ve always loved it, but two or three years back I suddenly heard it with new ears and kind of noticed what a great Wings song it actually is, instead of just the Bond song I’ve known for so long. I started to hear such a lot of Paul and of Wings in it all of a sudden.

There are very few Bond songs I don’t like that much, and especially a’ha’s The Living Daylights and Gladys Knights Licence to Kill are other huge favourites, but all in all, LALD is still my favourite. As I said, now maybe more so than ever. George Martins score is awesome too and for me ranks right up there with Contis and Kamens score and the three or four best works of John Barry as one of the best musical scores of the series.

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Thanks for all the info, MMD, nice to see you! 

I remember reading a magazine article that ranked all the individual themes from 1962 through 2019, or thereabouts, along with YouTube links, and I checked them all out, good and bad, the seven or nine I knew pretty well, as well as all the others; although I felt free to abandon many of the later ones after 30 seconds – that Madonna one was awful, I thought.

(Tina Turner, Grace Jones, and Lulu’s “Man With The Golden Gun”‘ were my favourites of the ones that were new to me.)

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 George Martins score is awesome too and for me ranks right up there with Contis and Kamens score and the three or four best works of John Barry as one of the best musical scores of the series.

  

I’m also a big fan of David Arnold’s score for Casino Royale. Chris Cornell’s riff, verse, and chorus melody on You Know My Name weaves perfectly into the main theme at any tempo during many different points in the movie. 

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Thanks for all the info, MMD, nice to see you! 

(Tina Turner, Grace Jones, and Lulu’s “Man With The Golden Gun”‘ were my favourites of the ones that were new to me.)

  

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Grace Jones starred in A View To A Kill, but never did a title song, so you must confuse her with someone else.

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I’m also a big fan of David Arnold’s score for Casino Royale. Chris Cornell’s riff, verse, and chorus melody on You Know My Name weaves perfectly into the main theme at any tempo during many different points in the movie.

I think Quantum of Solace was even better than Casino Royale and both were a step up from the three Brosnan films for Arnold. But still, Arnolds work was never in the same league as Barrys best for me, and I also like the one-time composers more (especially Michael Kamen, Bill Conti and the fifth Beatle).

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vonbontee said

Thanks for all the info, MMD, nice to see you! 

(Tina Turner, Grace Jones, and Lulu’s “Man With The Golden Gun”‘ were my favourites of the ones that were new to me.)

 

Grace Jones starred in A View To A Kill, but never did a title song, so you must have confused her with someone else.

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I think Quantum of Solace was even better than Casino Royale and both were a step up from the three Brosnan films for Arnold

I assume you mean that the score is better, not the film itself.  I’ll have to rewatch and keep an ear out for the score. I was never a fan of Jack White’s theme, but actually did enjoy the movie when it first came out. 

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Monkberry Moon Delight said

I think Quantum of Solace was even better than Casino Royale and both were a step up from the three Brosnan films for Arnold

I assume you mean that the score is better, not the film itself.  I’ll have to rewatch and keep an ear out for the score. I was never a fan of Jack White’s theme, but actually did enjoy the movie when it first came out. 

  

Both the film and the score are better, and I even throw the title song in there as well.

I like CR for its fresh and modern approach, it still feels much more modern and timeless than Mendes’ baroque, sluggish films. But it’s also a bit fragmented in the way it tries to adapt and expand the story of a 50+ year olf short book, I can’t unsee how it starts basically over again in the middle and goes on to mostly forget about the first half. Whereas QoS is razor sharp and super slick but still manages to pull out some depth without being pretentious. And it’s done with a lot of visual imagination, in large parts, almost every shot feels carefully crafted and structured. I also like White’s (and Keys’) song for bein eccentric and quite special, whereas Cornell’s song feels like it should have been arranged much more aggressively.

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