McCartney Times

‘Live and Let Die’, one of the most important post-Beatles releases for Paul McCartney, turns 50 this week. The song was originally recorded for the Roger Moore-starring James Bond movie of the same name in 1973 but has since become a cultural flag post and a highlight moment of McCartney’s live show, as thousands of fans saw at Glastonbury 2022. ‘Live and Let Die’ is also unique in being McCartney’s first post-Beatles track produced in full by George Martin. The longtime Beatles producer was helming the score for the Bond movie and worked closely with McCartney on the dramatic orchestral arrangements, which the latter once described as a “perfectly stated balance of grandiose, without being over the top.”

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