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
James Bond (comics) began to appear on a semi-regular basis for a few years, starting with an adaptation of "Licence to Kill" published in 1989 by Eclipse Comics and illustrated by Mike Grell, which was published in both trade paperback and hardcover edition. Grell would go on to write the miniseries "Permission to Die", the first James Bond comic book storyline not adapted from a previous work, which was published over a two-year period by Eclipse. In 1995, Topps Comics obtained the rights to publish an adaptation of the new Bond film, "GoldenEye", which was announced as a three-issue miniseries. The second issue