You Know My Name

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For the similarly titled Beatles song, see You Know My Name (Look up the Number).

"You Know My Name"

Single by Chris Cornell
Released	November 13, 2006
Format	CD, download
Genre	Rock
Length	4:02
Label	A&M Records
Producer(s)	Chris Cornell, David Arnold
Chart positions
#3 (Finland) #5 (Norway) #7 (UK Singles Chart) #4 (UK Official Download Chart) #10 (Switzerland) #11 (Ireland) #15 (Germany) #20 (Latvia) #21 (Sweden) #28 (Austria)
Chris Cornell singles chronology
"Flutter Girl" (1999)	"You Know My Name" (2006)	No Such Thing (2007)
James Bond theme chronology
"Die Another Day" (2002)	"You Know My Name" (2006)	TBA (2008)

Excerpts from the song in this article appear in inverted commas in parentheses

"You Know My Name", performed by Chris Cornell, is the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. Cornell wrote it jointly with David Arnold, the soundtrack's composer. The track was leaked onto the Internet on 20 September 2006. It is the first Bond theme to be sung by a male vocalist since 1987's The Living Daylights and is the first since 1983's "All Time High" — the theme to the film Octopussy — to not feature its film's title in the lyrics. Cornell is also the first American male artist to perform a James Bond title theme.

Similarly, its lyrics do not contain the words of the title, "Casino Royale", though references are made to casino gambling — odds, a hand (of cards; "Try to hide your hand"), diamonds, with the image of the card suit on-screen at the same time ("I've seen this diamond cut through harder men"), and Roulette ("a spin of the wheel") — to loyalty ("When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me?") and to betrayal ("The odds will betray you"), other themes from the story, and the coldness of the character of 007 ("Forget how to feel", "The coldest blood runs through my veins", etc.).

Cornell cites Paul McCartney's theme for Live and Let Die and Tom Jones's theme for Thunderball as his inspirations for writing this theme.

As with all Bond films the theme plays against a synchronised title sequence. This sequence, like those of previous Bond films starting with 1995's Goldeneye, is designed by Daniel Kleinman. However, it eschews the nude female silhouettes sprinkled liberally throughout the title sequences of both Kleinman and his predecessor, Maurice Binder. Instead, card game and mathematical symbolism and stylised animated fight sequences (e.g., henchman burst into heart symbols after being attacked by Bond, club symbols changing into a picture of the Mandelbrot set) serve as the backdrop.

The song is the first Bond theme not to be included on its film's soundtrack album. A second version with more orchestration was used for the music video. A third orchestrated version was used for the movie. Yet another version with very little orchestration was present on the Myspace page for the movie itself. The video for the single premiered on MTV's Making the Video on October 31, 2006.

The first version of the song, the grittier one which was leaked and not used in the movie, was made available for download on iTunes Store on November 13, 2006. This version debuted on the UK Single Download Chart at number 20 on November 22, 2006. It will be available on Chris Cornell's upcoming solo album, and was released as a stand-alone single on December 14, 2006. The single features a new acoustic version of the Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" as a B-side.[1] The German, Dutch and Australian versions of the single offer a second version of "You Know My Name" (called the Pop Mix) as a B-side.[2] This version is the one used for the song's music video.

Recently, it was announced that Chris Cornell won the Satellite Award for "You Know My Name", as well as garnering a first round nomination in the "Best Original Song" category for the 2007 Academy Awards.