Licence to Kill (soundtrack) version based on the James Bond Theme. The guitar riff heard in the original recording of the theme was played by Flick. The prospect, however, fell apart and Gladys Knight's song and performance was chosen, later becoming a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. The song was composed by Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff, based on the "horn line" from "Goldfinger", which required royalty payments to the original writers. At 5 minutes 13 seconds it is the longest Bond theme, though 45 single releases featured a shorter edit, running 4 minutes 11 seconds. The music video
Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey song) "Goldfinger" for her 2014 album "Hello Like Before". In doing so she addressed two notes that she thought "sounded wrong" in the original. Parodies of the song include "Dr. Evil", written by They Might Be Giants for "", and "Max Power", from "The Simpsons" episode "Homer to the Max". In 1989, after the release of the James Bond theme song "Licence to Kill", from the film of the same title, it was felt to significantly reuse important elements of "Goldfinger", and so the songwriting credits for the former were adapted for all subsequent releases. Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey song) "Goldfinger" is