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
Let Me Die In My Footsteps Footsteps" to critic Nat Hentoff, who wrote the liner notes for "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan": The liner notes to "Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1" included this comment on the song: Let Me Die In My Footsteps "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in February 1962. The song was selected for the original sequence of Dylan's 1963 album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", but was replaced by "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall". This version was recorded at Columbia studios on April 25, 1962, during the first "Freewheelin' " session, and was subsequently released in