McCartney Times

One of the most popular post-Beatles hits for any of the Fab Four was Paul McCartney’s ‘Live and Let Die’ which was created for the theme music for the James Bond film of the same name in 1973. The song was a major hit reaching number two on the US Billboard chart and number nine on the UK singles chart. Some 18 years later in 1991, Californian hard rockers Guns N’ Roses released their famous cover of McCartney’s classic song.

The cover came at a time when Guns N’ Roses had been paying tribute to a number of their most influential rock icons. During an interview in 1991 with Rolling Stone, lead guitarist Slash noted: “There are six covers: ‘Live and Let Die,’ by Wings, ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,’ by [Bob] Dylan — that new version that went nowhere — ‘Don’t Care About You,’ by Fear, ‘Attitude,’ by the Misfits, ‘New Rose,’ by The Damned, and ‘Down on the Farm,’ by U.K. Subs. They’re songs that we like — it’s as basic as that.”

Slash continued, explaining: “The Misfits song was Axl [Rose]’s idea, and ‘Heaven’s Door’ and ‘Live and Let Die’ were songs Axl and I both thought about doing.” Most of the group’s covers appeared on the band’s 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident? which included covers of classic songs by The Stooges, T. Rex, Soundgarden and Johnny Thunders.

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Source: Paul McCartney on Guns N’ Roses cover of ‘Live and Let Die’