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) "Live and Let Die"s promise of future sexual encounters between Bond and Solitaire to be more credible than "Casino Royale"s ending, in which Bond vows to battle a super-criminal organisation. Within the novel Fleming uses elements that are "pure Gothic", according to the essayist Umberto Eco. This includes the description of Mr Big's death by shark attack, in which Bond watches as "Half of The Big Man's left arm came out of the water. It had no hand, no wrist, no wrist watch." Eco considers that this is "not just an example of macabre sarcasm; it is an emphasis on