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Live And Let Die the best Bond theme

By | Published on Monday 17 September 2012

Paul McCartney

‘Live And Let Die’ is the best Bond theme ever, according to a poll of Radio 2 and 5 Live listeners conducted to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘Dr No’. The Paul McCartney penned and performed track was the soundtrack to the first Bond film featuring Roger Moore in 1973.

Carly Simon’s ‘Nobody Does It Better’, unusual for having the name of the movie it soundtracked (‘The Spy Who Loved Me’) in its lyrics but not its name, came in second, while the archetypal Bond theme ‘Goldfinger’, sung by Shirley Bassey, came in third.

I think I’d vote for A-ha’s ‘The Living Daylights’, but only because that’s the Bond film I watched this weekend. Wasn’t it better when Bond smoked? Silly 21st Century Hollywood and its ‘only bad guys smoke’ rule.



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