- UK release date:
- Jun 01, 1973
- US release date:
- Jun 18, 1973
- Publisher:
- Apple Records
- Reference:
- R 5987 (UK) / 1863 (US)
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This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
Oct 19, 1970
Red Rose Speedway sessions at EMI Studios, Abbey Road
September 1972 - January 1973
Recording "Live And Let Die" #1
Oct 19, 1972
Recording "Live And Let Die" #2
Oct 20, 1972
Oct 21, 1972
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Side 1
1.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
3:13 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass (?), Electric guitar (?), Percussion (?), Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass (?), Electric guitar (?)
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Henry McCullough :
- Electric guitar
- Denny Seiwell :
- Drums, Percussion (?)
- Ray Cooper :
- Duck-call, Percussion (?), Tympani
- Bill Price :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Oct 19, 1972
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK
- Session Overdubs:
- Oct 20, 1972
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK
- Session Mixing:
- Oct 21, 1972
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Side 2
1.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
5:01 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar, Mellotron, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Vocals
- Henry McCullough :
- Backing vocals (?), Electric guitar (?)
- Denny Seiwell :
- Backing vocals, Drums
- Hugh McCracken :
- Electric guitar (?)
- Unknown musician(s) :
- Horns
- Session Recording:
- Oct 19, 1970
- Studio :
- CBS Studios, New York City
- Session Overdubs:
- Mid-November 1972
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
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PAUL’S BOND
PAUL AND Linda McCartney have written the title song for the new James Bond movie, “Live And Let Die”, which is currently being shot in New Orleans.
Wings recorded the songs which will be used over the film’s title credits and an orchestrated version of the song will be played throughout the movie.
From Sounds – October 28, 1972

McCartney to score Bond
PAUL McCartney, who first moved into the writing of film scores with the Hayley Mills-Hywel Bennett film ‘The Family Way’, is to write a new theme for James Bond.
If he has time, it is also hoped that McCartney will write the other music for the next James Bond film, ’Live And Let Die’, the first to star the third-filed Bond, Roger Moore. McCartney replaces John Barry, who has scored all the previous music for Bond films. Wings may be used to play the music.
Another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr, is also understood to be involved in a film project which is to feature Keith Moon, The Everly Brothers and music by Graham Bond.
From Record Mirror – October 21, 1972

McCARTNEY AND WINGS’ SONGS IN NEW BOND MOVIE
PAUL McCARTNEY is writing some — and possibly all — of the music for the next James Bond movie “Live And Let Die”, which has just gone into production in America with Roger Moore taking over the 007 role from Sean Connery. The exact extent of McCartney’s contribution to the film has not yet been determined, but he has already penned the title theme — written in all previous Bond pictures by John Barry — and has recorded it for the movie’s soundtrack with his group Wings.
A spokesman for McCartney told the NME: “Paul is also writing two or three songs for the picture. which we hope will be recorded by Wings. But it hasn’t yet been decided whether he will get involved in writing the entire incidental score for the film. It’s really up to him. and at present he is considering if he wants to take on such a vast project”
From New Musical Express – October 21, 1972


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