James Bond music was rumoured that "No Good About Goodbye" was intended for "Quantum of Solace", however David Arnold said 'No Good About Goodbye' was never intended as a Bond song. Paul McCartney's performance of "Live and Let Die" was the first Bond theme song to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song; it reached 2 as a U.S. single, and 9 on the U.K. charts. George Martin's work in the song won the Grammy for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists. Marvin Hamlisch's (music) and Carole Bayer Sager's (lyrics) "Nobody Does It Better" (performed by Carly Simon) received a nomination for
Live and Let Die (novel) and he initially considered making the story a meditation on the nature of evil. The novel's original title, "The Undertaker's Wind", reflects this; the undertaker's wind, which was to act as a metaphor for the story, describes one of Jamaica's winds that "blows all the bad air out of the island". The literary critic Daniel Ferreras Savoye considers the titles of Fleming's novels to have importance individually and collectively; "Live and Let Die", he writes, "turns an expression of collective wisdom, in this case fraternal and positive, into its exact opposite, suggesting a materialistic epistemological outlook, individualistic and lucid". This