A View to a Kill (song) A View to a Kill (song) "A View to a Kill" is the thirteenth single by the English new wave and synthpop band Duran Duran, released on 6 May 1985. Written and recorded as the theme for the 1985 James Bond movie of the same name, it became one of the band's biggest hits. It remains the only James Bond theme song to have reached number 1 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100; it also made it to number 2 for three weeks on the UK Singles Chart. In 1986, composer John Barry and Duran Duran were nominated for the
For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) of its title (but no characters or plot elements) to the fourteenth Bond film, "A View to a Kill" (1985). Plot elements from "The Hildebrand Rarity" were used in the sixteenth Bond film, "Licence to Kill" (1989), and the twenty-fourth Bond film "Spectre" references the title. "Quantum of Solace" was used as the title for the twenty-second Bond film (2008). Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin. The rider was "en route" from SHAPE, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, then located in Versailles, to his base, Station