![]() ![]() In 1984, McCartney asked "Weird Al" Yankovic when he was going to parody one of his songs. ![]() Linda McCartney - Backing Vocals, Keyboards.Geri Halliwell, of the Spice Girls, released the song as a b-side track for her solo number one single Lift Me Up, in November 1999.Ī cover by Duffy was on the War Child charity album Heroes released in February 2009. Due to its status as a Bond theme it was also covered by The Pretenders (released exclusively on the album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project), and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas performed the song on Movies Rock 2007, a CBS] special celebrating music in movies. "Live And Let Die" is the only song to appear on all of McCartney's live albums (barring the acoustic-based 'Unplugged.')Īlthough the most famous version of the song remains Wings' original recording, it was covered by the Stan Kenton big band in 1973 and later by Guns N' Roses in 1991. Paul has continued to play the song on his solo tours, often using pyrotechnics when playing outdoor venues. In Wings' live performances, the song's instrumental break featured flashpots and a laser light show that became a highlight. "Live and Let Die" was the first James Bond theme song to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (which gave Paul his second Academy Award nomination and Linda her first), but it lost to the theme song from " The Way We Were". ![]() In the 2001 documentary Wingspan, Paul revealed that Linda wrote the bridge section "What Does It Matter To You.".ĭespite its first LP appearance on the 1973 soundtrack album, "Live And Let Die" was not featured on a Paul McCartney album until the Wings Greatest compilation in 1978. The single giving sole authorship to Paul McCartney, while the soundtrack album credits Paul & Linda McCartney as the composer. The single and the soundtrack album also disagree on the composer credit. "Live and Let Die" was the last Paul McCartney single on Apple Records that was credited only to "Wings". When the song made its first album appearance on the soundtrack album, however, the song was credited to "Paul McCartney & Wings". Although McCartney's previous single, " My Love", had been credited to "Paul McCartney & Wings", the label of the "Live and Let Die" single credited the performing artist simply as "Wings." This is because the B-side of the single, " I Lie Around", was not sung by Paul McCartney but instead sung by Wings guitarist Denny Laine. Wings recorded "Live and Let Die" during the sessions for the Red Rose Speedway album. The Arnau version of the song appears on the soundtrack album as a component in a medley that also contains two George Martin-composed instrumental pieces, "Fillet of Soul - New Orleans" and "Fillet of Soul - Harlem". A second version of the song, performed by B.J. Saltzman, who had previously rejected the chance to produce A Hard Day's Night, decided not to make the same mistake twice and agreed. Martin said that McCartney would only allow the song to be used in the movie if Wings were able to perform the song in the opening credits. However, Bond producer Harry Saltzman was interested in having an African American female artist perform it instead of Wings. Shannon Hoon from Blind Melon sang backup on the track.After George Martin was hired to score the new James Bond film, Paul McCartney offered to compose the theme song, and Wings recorded a demo of "Live and Let Die". Guns N’ Roses covered this in 1991 on Use Your Illusion I.He agreed to write it only if his band Wings could perform it. McCartney was initially asked to write a song for the movie for someone else to perform.Other hits from James Bond movies include “ Nobody Does It Better” by Carly Simon, “ For Your Eyes Only” by Sheena Easton, and “ A View To A Kill” by Duran Duran. This was the most successful Bond theme up to that point.Just to watch him get in there and write the song was really something I’ll remember the rest of my life.” Live and Let Die fun facts! Within 10 minutes, Paul had that written the song. Denny Seiwell: “We were up at the house one day and he (Paul) had just read the book the night before, he sat down at the piano and said, ‘James Bond… James Bond… da-da-dum!’, and he started screwing around at the piano.” The producers of the movie had specifically requested McCartney to write the title track for the new Bond film, and had sent him the book just a few weeks before to read. Wings co-founder and drummer, Denny Seiwell said of this song: “Everybody thought it was cool that we were doing something for James Bond.” Live and Let Die was a play on the title of the eighth James bond film, Live and Let live“.
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