Paul McCartney and Wings wrote and performed music for which James Bond movie?

Paul McCartney and Wings wrote and performed the music for the James Bond film “Live and Let Die.”

Released in 1973, the song serves as the title theme for the film starring Roger Moore as James Bond. Paul McCartney wrote it with Linda McCartney, and Wings performed the recording. The producers, Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, commissioned McCartney to create the theme.

The recording reunited McCartney with Beatles producer George Martin, who produced and arranged the track. Its combination of piano, orchestral passages, reggae-influenced rhythm, and hard-rock explosions gave it a dramatic sound that matched the film’s action-heavy style.

“Live and Let Die” became one of the best-known Bond themes and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. It is also commonly confused with later covers, especially Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 version, which introduced the song to another generation but was not the original film performance.