Paul McCartney has recalled being “amazed” when Guns N’ Roses coated his 1973 hit with Wings, ‘Live & Let Die’.
The track was written for the James Bond movie of the identical identify earlier than it was coated by the legendary ’80s rockers twenty years later and appeared on their 1991 album ‘Use Your Illusion I’.
McCartney even admitted to being stunned that the quilt was profitable sufficient for it to be mistaken for a Guns N’ Roses authentic fairly than one among his songs.
Speaking on his A Life In Lyrics podcast, McCartney mentioned: “I assumed it was fairly good truly. I used to be extra amazed that they’d truly do it, this younger American group.
“The attention-grabbing factor was my youngsters would go to high school and they’d go, ‘My dad wrote that.’ They’d go, ‘No he didn’t, it was Guns N’ Roses,’ so no person would ever consider them. For some time it was simply Guns N’ Roses.”
He added: “I used to be very blissful that they’d finished it. I at all times like individuals doing my songs.”
Speaking about writing a Bond theme, he mentioned: “It was at all times a sneaky ambition to put in writing a Bond track as a result of, in some methods, I prefer to see myself, one portion of myself, as a jobbing author. You require a track for the queen’s marriage ceremony, I’m your man.
“The equal of that for lots individuals is the Bond track. You’ve written a Bond track, it’s a little bit of an accolade.”
Meanwhile, The Beatles topped the charts final week with their “last” observe ‘Now And Then’ – six a long time after they secured their first Number One.
Released earlier this month, the observe was billed because the final track from the Fab Four and stemmed from an outdated John Lennon demo tape – accomplished by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with the assist of AI.
It additionally got here alongside each a brief video documenting their time finishing the venture and a Peter Jackson-directed music video that included beforehand unearthed footage of the band.
