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1973 vocal by Paul McCartney and Wings

"Live and Let Die"
Pocket-size-center variant of the UK 7-inch single
Unmarried past Wings
from the anthology Live and Let Die
B-side	"I Lie Around"
Released	1 June 1973
Recorded	October 1972
Studio	AIR (London, England)
Genre	Symphonic stone[1]
Length	iii:12
Label	Apple tree
Songwriter(due south)	Paul McCartney Linda McCartney
Producer(s)	George Martin
Paul McCartney and Wings singles chronology
"My Beloved" (1973) "Live and Let Dice" (1973) "Helen Wheels" (1973)
James Bond theme singles chronology
"Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) "Alive and Allow Die" (1973) "The Man With the Golden Gun" (1975)

"Live and Let Die" is the theme vocal of the 1973 James Bond film of the aforementioned name, performed past the British–American rock band Wings. Written by English musician Paul McCartney and his wife Linda McCartney, it reunited McCartney with sometime Beatles producer George Martin, who produced the song and arranged the orchestra. McCartney was contacted to write the song by the motion-picture show's producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli before the screenplay was finished. Wings recorded "Live and Let Die" during the sessions for Ruddy Rose Speedway in Oct 1972 at AIR Studios. It was also the kickoff rock song to open a Bond motion picture. Another version past B. J. Arnau likewise appears in the pic.

Upon release, "Live and Permit Die" was the virtually successful Bail theme up to that point, reaching No. 1 on two of the three major US charts (though it only reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100) and No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart.^{[ii] [three]} The song besides received positive reviews from music critics and continues to exist praised every bit one of McCartney'south best songs. It became the first Bond theme vocal to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, merely ultimately lost the accolade to Barbra Streisand'south "The Mode We Were". Information technology was also nominated for the Best Organization Accompanying Vocalist(s) at the 16th Annual Grammy Awards in 1974.

Wings performed "Live and Let Die" alive during their concert tours and McCartney continues to play information technology on his solo tours, often using pyrotechnics during the instrumental breaks. Information technology has been covered by several bands, including Guns N' Roses, whose version appears on their 1991 anthology Use Your Illusion I. One of the more pop covers of the song, their version was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in 1993. In 2012, McCartney was awarded the Meg-Air Award from Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), for more 4 million performances of the song in the Usa.^[iv]

Background and recording [edit]

Even before Tom Mankiewicz had finished writing the screenplay to Live and Let Dice, producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli invited McCartney to write the theme song. McCartney asked to exist sent a re-create of Ian Fleming's novel. "I read it and thought it was pretty good. That afternoon I wrote the song and went in the side by side calendar week and did it ... It was a job of work for me in a way because writing a vocal around a title like that's not the easiest thing going."^[5]

Originally, producer Harry Saltzman was interested in having Shirley Bassey or Thelma Houston perform it instead of Wings.^[1] Martin said McCartney would let the song to be used in the motion picture just if Wings was able to perform the song in the opening credits. A 2nd version of the song, performed by B. J. Arnau, also appears in the film. Arnau's operation originally was meant for the group Fifth Dimension.^[6] The Arnau version of the vocal appears on the soundtrack album equally a component in a medley that besides contains 2 George Martin-composed instrumental pieces, "Fillet of Soul – New Orleans" and "Fillet of Soul – Harlem". It was too released by RCA Records as a single in belatedly June 1973.^[seven]

Wings recorded "Live and Allow Dice" during the sessions for the Red Rose Speedway anthology,^[1] in October 1972.^[eight] The vocal was recorded at AIR Studios, with Ray Cooper providing percussion instruments.^[9]

Release and aftermath [edit]

"Live and Let Die" was previewed in the 1973 television receiver special James Paul McCartney, which aired on xvi April in the United States and 10 May in the United Kingdom. In the segment, McCartney and Wings were shown performing the song in his studio, while clips of the picture show were shown, before the picture show'southward United states theatrical release on 27 June.^[10] In his contemporary review of the single for the NME, Ian MacDonald wrote: "McCartney's fairly reasonable solution to the given problem 'Write, in less than 25 bars, a theme-tune for the new James Bail pic' is to 'Let It Exist' for the first half, wailing absently and with a curious notion of grammar, about this 'e'er changing world in which we alive in', before sitting back to let a 3,000-piece orchestra do a human being-in-the-street'due south impression of John Barry. It's non intrinsically very interesting, but the film will help to sell it and vice versa."^{[xi] [12]} Billboard's contemporary review called it "the best 007 movie theme" to that time and ane of McCartney'southward most satisfying singles, past combining sweetness melody, symphonic bombast and some reggae into one song.^[13] Cash Box said that the vocal was "admittedly magnificent in every respect."^[fourteen]

"Alive and Allow Die" reached No. 1 on two of the 3 major US charts, though only reached No. 2 on the US Hot 100 for three weeks. It was kept from the No. one spot each week by iii different songs, "The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern, "Touch Me in the Forenoon" by Diana Ross, and "Brother Louie" by Stories.^[15] "Live and Let Die" also peaked at No. 9 in the Great britain.^{[16] [17]} The unmarried was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over one one thousand thousand copies.^{[18] [19]}

Sales of the single release and of the canvas music were "solid."^[20] The sheet music used the line "in this always-changing world in which we live in" as function of the opening verse of the vocal. In the Washington Post interview more than than thirty years after, McCartney told the interviewer, "I don't think about the lyric when I sing it. I think information technology'due south 'in which we're living', or it could be 'in which we live in', and that'southward kind of, sort of, wronger merely cuter," before deciding that it was "in which we're living."^[ten]

"Alive and Permit Die" was not featured on a McCartney album until the Wings Greatest compilation in 1978, and was included again on 1987's All the Best!, 2001'due south Wingspan: Hits and History, 2016's Pure McCartney, and in 2018 every bit a restored bonus rails on a reissue of Ruby-red Rose Speedway. The entire soundtrack also was released in quadrophonic.

United Artists promoted the song in merchandise advertisements for Academy Award consideration, though producer Broccoli opposed the marketing tactic as unnecessary.^[21] The song became the first James Bond theme song to exist nominated for an Academy Honour for Best Original Vocal (garnering McCartney his second Academy Award nomination and Linda her first). In the University Laurels performance of the vocal, entertainer Connie Stevens dressed in a "silver-lamé outfit" with a Native American-looking headdress "descended from the ceiling" then was "variously lifted and tossed virtually" by dancers dressed in various colours until she left the scene. The song lost to the eponymous theme song from the musical film The Manner We Were.^[22]

In Wings' alive performances of the song, the instrumental break featured flashpots and a light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation lite show. McCartney has continued to play the vocal on his solo tours, frequently using pyrotechnics. "Alive and Permit Dice" is the only song to appear on all of McCartney's alive albums (except for the acoustic-based Unplugged.)

Following the 9/xi attacks, the vocal was placed on Clear Channel's list of inappropriate song titles.^[23]

The song with an extended introduction was included in the movie Shrek The 3rd (2007) and on its soundtrack.^[24] It was also used to underscore the montage celebrating the 60th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, as presented at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.^[25]

Personnel [edit]

• Paul McCartney – lead vocals, piano
• Linda McCartney – backing vocals, keyboard
• Henry McCullough – lead guitar
• Denny Laine – backing vocals, bass guitar
• Denny Seiwell – drums
• Ray Cooper – percussion
• George Martin – orchestral organisation

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Unreleased parody [edit]

In 1984, McCartney asked "Weird Al" Yankovic when he was going to parody one of his songs.^[42] In 1992, Yankovic asked for permission to put his parody "Chicken Pot Pie" on an anthology. McCartney denied the employ considering he is a vegetarian and did not want to promote the consumption of meat. Yankovic, a vegetarian himself, said he respected the determination;^[43] all the same, he has performed the song live in the 1990s as part of a food-themed medley.^[44]

Guns North' Roses version [edit]

"Alive and Let Die"
United states retail cassette edition; the US CD edition was a promo-only release
Single by Guns Due north' Roses
from the album Use Your Illusion I
B-side	"Alive and Allow Dice" (live)
Released	3 December 1991 (1991-12-03)
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:04
Label	Geffen Uzi Suicide
Producer(due south)	Mike Clink Guns North' Roses
Guns North' Roses singles chronology
"Don't Cry" (1991) "Live and Let Die" (1991) "November Rain" (1992)

American rock band Guns Due north' Roses covered "Live and Allow Die" in 1991. It was released as the second unmarried from their 1991 album, Use Your Illusion I, and the fourth out of all the Use Your Illusion singles. This cover was commercially successful and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Difficult Stone Operation at the 35th Almanac Grammy Awards in 1993.^[45]

Groundwork [edit]

In the April 1992 consequence of Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Slash explained to John Stix how the group came to tape the song:

It's one of those songs, like "Sky's Door," that Axl and I have e'er loved. It's always been a really heavy song, but we'd never discussed it, and didn't know that we each liked information technology. We were talking one night near a cover vocal and that came up, and we were similar, "Yeah! Allow's do it!" Then I went to rehearsal with Izzy and Matt and Duff, merely to see whether nosotros could sound good playing it, and information technology sounded actually heavy.

In his 2007 memoir, Slash credits Rose for his synthesizer work on the track, writing, "When nosotros did 'Live and Let Die', information technology was all synths – those horns are not horns. What Axl did there was actually circuitous; he spent hours dialing all that shit in, getting the nuances but correct, and I have to requite him that."^[46]

Chart performance [edit]

Guns Northward' Roses' cover charted at No. 20 on the Us Billboard Album Stone Tracks chart^[47] and No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[48] Worldwide, the single reached the top five in Ireland,^[49] Kingdom of norway,^[fifty] and the United Kingdom.^[51] In Republic of finland, it became the third consecutive number-one single from the Apply Your Illusion albums,^[52] and information technology also reached No. 1 in New Zealand for two weeks.^[53]

Music video [edit]

A music video was made in November 1991 featuring the band playing live on stage and showing old pictures. The video also was made shortly before Izzy Stradlin'due south departure, and information technology is the last video in which he appears.

In popular culture [edit]

Guns North' Roses' version of this song appears on the soundtrack of the 1997 movie Grosse Pointe Blank.

All gain from sales of the t-shirt were donated to the Recording Academy's MusiCares, which provides services and resource to those in demand in the music community.^[54]

Track list [edit]

1. "Alive and Permit Die" – 2:59
2. "Live and Let Dice" (Alive from Wembley Stadium, August 31, 1991.) – iii:37
3. "Shadow of Your Love" (Alive) – 2:50

Personnel [edit]

Guns N' Roses

• W. Axl Rose – lead vocals, keyboard, programming, backing vocals
• Slash – lead guitar, six-string bass
• Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar
• Duff McKagan – bass
• Matt Sorum – drums
• Airheaded Reed – keyboards

Additional musicians

• Shannon Hoon – backing vocals
• Johann Langlie – programming
• Jon Trautwein – horn
• Matthew McKagan – horn
• Rachel West – horn
• Robert Clark – horn

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Run into also [edit]

• Outline of James Bond

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General

• Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-986330-3. LCCN 2012006979. Retrieved ix January 2018.

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