Oscar-Nominated Songs: Live and Let Die

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Later this month, during this month-long look at my favorite songs nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, you’re going to see a song I post and ask “what is she thinking??????” Remember this song when that happens. I think this is the hardest rocking song on the list. Live and Let Die - Wings Yes, you Guns ‘n’ Roses fans, that song. And, for you older folks, that band of Paul McCartney’s after that band he was in before Wings. Here’s something interesting: although Casino Royale had an Oscar-nominated song from it (“The Look of Love,” and no, not the ABC song ), “Live and Let Die” was the first actual theme song from a Bond film to be nominated for an Academy Award. I’ve counted five Bond themes to be nominated, with three of them winning (all relatively recently). So I guess that puts this and Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better” (from The Spy Who Loved Me) in the minority! And NO, Shirley Bassey’s classic “Goldfinger” wasn’t nominated. Go figure. Anyway, this is one of Sir Paul’s rocking classic hits. The movie was the first one with Sir Roger Moore as James Bond. In the award, it lost to “The Way We Were.” I don’t know how well the movie holds up (I’m not a Bond fan), but I know the song has held up very well over the past 50 years. Live and Let Die Written by Paul and Linda McCartney Recorded by Wings From Live and Let Die, 1973 What does it matter to ya: