Live and Let Die (song) AIR Studios, with Ray Cooper providing percussion instruments. The song "Live and Let Die" was previewed in the 1973 television special "James Paul McCartney", which aired on 16 April in the United States and 10 May in the United Kingdom. In the segment, McCartney and Wings were shown performing the song in his studio while clips of the film were shown, before the film's US theatrical release on 27 June. The single reached No. 1 on two of the three major US charts, though only reached No.2 on the US Hot 100 for three weeks. It was kept from the
Live and Let Die (novel) which for sheer excitement have not been surpassed by any modern writer of this kind". The reviewer for "The Daily Telegraph" felt that "the book is continually exciting, whether it takes us into the heart of Harlem or describes an underwater swim in shark-infested waters; and it is more entertaining because Mr Fleming does not take it all too seriously himself". George Malcolm Thompson, writing in "The Evening Standard", believed "Live and Let Die" to be "tense; ice-cold, sophisticated; Peter Cheyney for the carriage trade". Writing in "The New York Times", Anthony Boucher—a critic described by Fleming's biographer, John Pearson,