Live and Let Die (soundtrack) score "Live and Let Die". Producers Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Paul McCartney to write the theme song and McCartney in turn asked Martin to record it for him. Impressed with the orchestration for the finished track, Saltzman and Broccoli considered Martin for the film’s score. Martin worked closely with director Guy Hamilton who described what the music should convey in each scene as it unfolds. Only very minor changes to the finished score were asked for. Martin felt that this was as much for Hamilton's accurate briefing. The orchestra was conducted by Martin and recorded at AIR Studios. The
Live and Let Die (novel) publicity in other territories. In October 1957 Pan Books issued a paperback version which sold 50,000 copies in the first year. "Live and Let Die" was published in the US in January 1955 by Macmillan; there was only one major change in the book, which was that the title of the fifth chapter was changed from "Nigger Heaven" to "Seventh Avenue". Sales in the US were poor, with only 5,000 copies sold in the first year of publication. Philip Day of "The Sunday Times" noted "How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes", while the reviewer for "The Times", thought that "[t]his