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"Live and Let Die"
Single by Paul McCartney and Wings from the album Live and Let Die
B-side	"I Lie Around"
Released	June 1, 1973
Format	7" single
Recorded	1973
Genre	Rock
Length	3:12
Label	Apple Records
Writer	Paul McCartney Linda McCartney
Producer	Paul McCartney George Martin
Certification	RIAA (U.S.) - Gold (August 31, 1973)
Paul McCartney and Wings singles chronology
"My Love" (1972) "Live and Let Die" (1972) "Helen Wheels" (1973)
James Bond theme chronology
"Diamonds Are Forever" (1971)	"Live and Let Die" (1973)	"The Man With the Golden Gun" (1975)

"Live and Let Die", was written for the James Bond film and soundtrack Live and Let Die, was one of Wings' most successful singles. Credited to Paul McCartney and his wife Linda, it reunited McCartney with Beatles producer George Martin, who also arranged the orchestral break.

Although the most famous version of the song remains Paul McCartney and Wings' original recording, it was later covered by Guns N' Roses and, due to its status as a Bond theme song, by The Pretenders (the latter released exclusively on the album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project). Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas performed the song on Movies Rock, a CBS special celebrating music in movies.

The lyrics are sometimes criticized for the strange phrase^{[citation needed]} but if this ever-changing world in which we live in, but that is actually a mis-hearing of the lyric but if this ever-changing world in which we're livin'. The correct lyrics are printed in the booklet for the Paul McCartney CD All the Best!.

"Live and Let Die" was the first James Bond theme song to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (which gave Paul his second Academy Award nomination and Linda her first), but it lost to the theme song from "The Way We Were".

The song was played in an episode of King of the Hill, during a high school flashback scene involving Hank, Dale and Bill accidentally driving Boomhauer's car into a quarry, it was used at the opening of the second episode of the BBC series Life on Mars and was the theme of the hit reality show The Rebel Billionaire. An abridged version of the song is also featured in the movie Shrek the Third, shown as sung by a chorus of six frogs at King Harold's funeral.

Malajube, a band from Québec, sings the famous opening line "When you were young and your heart was an open book..." at the end of their song "M Pupille" on the single of "Étienne d'aout".

On the ESPN program NFL Live anchor Chris Berman refers to Indianapolis Colts running back Joseph Addai jokingly as "Joseph Live and Let Addai". Also on The Bob and Tom Show, Tom Griswald, in his Dick Mango personality, sings a song called "Joseph Addai", played in a parody form of Live and Let Die.

In 1984, McCartney asked "Weird Al" Yankovic when he was going to parody one of his songs.^[1] A couple of years later, Yankovic asked for permission to put his "Live and Let Die" parody "Chicken Pot Pie" on an album (as a courtesy though, legally he didn't need it). McCartney denied the use because he is a vegetarian and didn't want to promote the eating of animal flesh. Fellow vegetarian Yankovic said he respected the decision.^[2]