Live and Let Die (song)

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"Live and Let Die"

Single by Paul McCartney and Wings
from the album Live and Let Die
B-side(s)	"I Lie Around"
Released	1 June 1973
Format	7" single
Recorded	1973
Genre	Rock
Length	3:12
Label	Apple Records
Writer(s)	Paul McCartney
Producer(s)	Paul McCartney and George Martin
Certification	RIAA (US) Gold August 31, 1973
Chart positions
#7 (UK) #2 (US)
Paul McCartney and Wings singles chronology
"My Love" (with Wings) (1972)	"Live and Let Die" (with Wings) (1972)	"Helen Wheels" (with Wings) (1973)

"Live and Let Die"

Single by Guns N' Roses
from the album Use Your Illusion I
Released	1991
Recorded	1990
Genre	Hard rock
Length	2:59
Label	Geffen Records
Writer(s)	Paul McCartney
Producer(s)	Mike Clink and Guns N' Roses
Chart positions
#20
Guns N' Roses singles chronology
Don't Cry	Live and Let Die	November Rain

"Live and Let Die", from the James Bond film and soundtrack Live and Let Die, is one of Sir Paul McCartney's most successful singles. Written with his wife Linda McCartney, it reunited the former Beatle with producer George Martin. Although the most famous version of the song remains George Martin's recording of the McCartneys' Wings, it was later covered by Guns N' Roses and, due to its status as a Bond theme song, by The Pretenders (the latter released exclusively on the album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project). The song has a unique musical structure for a piece of pop music.

"Live and Let Die" was the first James Bond theme song to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, losing out to the theme song from "The Way We Were."

[edit] Parody

In 1984, McCartney asked "Weird Al" Yankovic when he was going to parody one of his songs.[1] A couple of years later, Yankovic asked for permission to put his "Live and Let Die" parody "Chicken Pot Pie" on an album. McCartney denied the use because he is a vegetarian and didn't want to promote the eating of animal flesh. Fellow vegetarian Yankovic said he respected the decision.[2]

[edit] Trivia

The song is played in an episode of King Of The Hill, during a high school flashback scene involving Hank, Dale and Bill accidentally driving Boomhauer's car into a quarry.

The song is played at the opening of the second episode of the BBC series Life On Mars

The lyrics are sometimes criticized for the strange phrase but if this ever-changing world in which we live in, but that is actually a mis-hearing of the lyric but if this ever-changing world in which we're livin'.^{[citation needed]}

Malajube, a band from Québec, sings the famous line "When you were young and your heart was an open book..." at the end of their song "M Pupille" on the single of "Étienne d'aout".

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