I don't get it.
Has it not been established over the past thirty years that doing the theme song to a James Bond film signals an end to your career as a pop star?
Nobody has ever recovered from it, AFAIAA, for whatever reason, once you've done one you lose all credibility, drive, creativeness; whatever that magic spark or unique selling point is you had, it's extinguished.
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And there was me hoping it might be JessieJ who got the career kiss of death...
C, write to her and suggest it.
Shirley Basseyu is still doing well in spite of 2 Bond theme tunes...and Paul McCartney just got knighted
G, so what? Duran Duran are still going, so is Madonna but they are all just slogging round the cabaret circuit, doing cover version of their own hits, there's no creative spark or new stuff.
Paul McCartney has made precisely two good songs since Live & Let Die (namely Mull of Kintyre and Dance Tonight). That's not much to show for forty years is it?
Given Macs solo career before Live and Let Die (which preceded Band On the Run), what exactly were the career highs? "Hi Hi Hi" or "Give Ireland Back to the Irish". I seem to recall at the time a certain ex-colleague singing "The only thing you done was yesterday/And since you've gone you're just another day"
Your basic point is true in light of the Beatles but for McCartney's solo career it was the beginning of his purple patch.
I love the Moby Bond remix.
in the old days, songs were written by people and sung by others...so Bricusse and Newley wrote Goldfinger and they continued to have hit songs and it was a decade later later that Newley wrote the Candyman. Just chipping away at your theory...every chip spoils it. :)
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