Live and Let Die (film) and orchestrated the "James Bond Theme", was unavailable during production. Broccoli and Saltzman instead asked Paul McCartney to write the theme song. Since McCartney's salary was high and another composer could not be hired with the remainder of the music budget, George Martin, who had been McCartney's producer while with The Beatles, was chosen to write the score for the film. "Live and Let Die", written by McCartney along with his wife Linda and performed by their group Wings, was the first true rock and roll song used to open a Bond film, and became a major success in the
Academy Award for Best Original Song always been five nominees, except in 2013 when one was disqualified. The first film to receive multiple nominations was "Fame" in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", "Dreamgirls", and "Enchanted". "Dreamgirls" and "Enchanted" lost on every nomination: "An Inconvenient Truth" original song "I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from "Dreamgirls", while "Falling Slowly" from "Once" defeated all three of "Enchanted"s nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs