Live/Living Top Ten: Live and Let Die (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (74473)
United States
March 23, 2024 10:47am CST
Wow, I wish everyone worked that fast. The patient ahead of my sis-in-law yesterday was sick, so they moved her surgery up to 7:30 AM. By the time I was leaving home she was in recovery!! She’s doing well. Speaking of doing well, here’s a classic song on list of songs with “live” in the title.
#9: Live and Let Die - Wings
I used this last year in the Oscar-nominated list. This was the first Bond theme song to be nominated for “Best Original Song” (unreal, considering the classic “Goldfinger,” but I harped on that last year). It was also the first “rock and roll” song (again, you could dispute that with “Goldfinger”) to be a Bond movie theme.
And Guns ‘n’ Roses thought they could do this better? Ha!
Enjoy some classic Sir Paul.
Live and Let Die
Written by Paul and Linda McCartney
Recorded by Wings
Released as a single, 1973
Your heart was an open book:
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
23 Mar 24
Major shock here: I’ve never seen an entire James Bond movie. I guess the closest I ever came was the parody film Our Man Flint.
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
24 Mar 24
@LadyDuck — I had to see Our Man Flint because of my massive crush on Edward Mulhare. 
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@LadyDuck (473902)
• Switzerland
23 Mar 24
@FourWalls Our Man Flint was funny. I have seen many James Bond movie, but I stopped when they started changing the characters and I never liked Daniel Craig as James Bond. I see him better playing a Russian guy.
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
24 Mar 24
Definitely a not-safe-for-driving-in-a-speed-trap song!
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@JudyEv (352840)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Mar 24
@FourWalls It's funny how some songs make you put your foot down. lol
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
24 Mar 24
You just liked the “weeping on a willow, sleeping on a pillow, leaping armadillo, yeah” line in “Big Bard Bed.” 
(Obviously I wore it out, too. 
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@LindaOHio (188134)
• United States
24 Mar 24
LOVE IT!!! I hope your SIL continues to do well. Have a good week.
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
24 Mar 24
Thanks. She’ll go to the rehab facility for a week or so of PT and OT on her new shoulder. She should be transferred there by the end of the day.
Glad you liked the song. Come back to it when the country stuff resurfaces. 
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@LindaOHio (188134)
• United States
25 Mar 24
@FourWalls You're welcome. I hear that PT on a new shoulder is painful. I hope she gets through it OK.
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@dgobucks226 (36490)
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23 Mar 24
Well, that's an obvious one isn't it. Excellent pick and very fitting for songs with "live" in the title. 
It was said Paul sat down at the piano and wrote the song in 10 minutes. Funny how inspiration can flow in just a moment!
It was said Paul sat down at the piano and wrote the song in 10 minutes. Funny how inspiration can flow in just a moment!1 person likes this
@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
28 Mar 24
@dgobucks226 — “The Ballad of How to Move These Refrigerators.”
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
24 Mar 24
It’s astonishing how some people agonize for months over a line in a song, while people like Sir Paul can just sit down and whip out a classic like this in ten minutes. If you really want to see something hilariously innovative, watch Elton John put music to the instructions for using a microwave!!!!
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@dgobucks226 (36490)
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28 Mar 24
@FourWalls Yes, everyday experiences often times find their way into a song. Microwave oven instructions I'm skeptical. Unless we are talking "Dire Straits." (and your chicks for free)
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@RebeccasFarm (94534)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Mar 24
Somehow I went off Paul in the end.
I think it was because I equated his music with unhappy times I had..
That's how the cookie crumbles.
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@RebeccasFarm (94534)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Mar 24
@FourWalls Ah well, tis all part of the life thanks.
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
23 Mar 24
Aw.. 
That’s what music does, however…just as it can bring back wonderful memories, it can bring back very bad ones.
That’s what music does, however…just as it can bring back wonderful memories, it can bring back very bad ones.1 person likes this
@RasmaSandra (84720)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Mar 24
I do not really know why but I love this song and always enjoyed it when they played it on the radio,
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
24 Mar 24
I think the enjoyable thing about it is the way it keep changing speeds…starts off slow, gets a rock instrumental section, then goes a little white-boy-reggae in the bridge.
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@FourWalls (74473)
• United States
28 Mar 24
I’ll take your word for it. I’ve never seen a Bond film.
