![]() ![]() “A View To A Kill,” Duran Duran’s second and final #1 single, was a sort of unofficial reunion record, and it was also an unintended breakup record. Instead, Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” is very much a product of its time - a coked-out, ultra-synthetic big-’80s pop confection that probably tells us more about the cultural climate of the late Cold War than any of the period’s actual Bond movies even tried to convey. Unlike those songs, though, this particular Bond theme doesn’t really build on that classic Bond archetype. Like “Live And Let Die” and “Nobody Does It Better,” the only Bond theme ever to hit #1 comes from the franchise’s often-derided Roger Moore era. You could say the same of the two Bond themes that peaked at #2: Paul McCartney & Wings’ “ Live And Let Die,” from 1973, and Carly Simon’s “ Nobody Does It Better,” from 1977. It’s a grand, operatic torch song with a few musical nods toward the sound of the moment. It’s a 9.) “Goldfinger” essentially set the standard for Bond themes. The Bond themes don’t always do well on the charts, but seven of them have made the top 10 - including Shirley Bassey’s “ Goldfinger,” the general-consensus best opening theme in Bond-franchise history. But the No Time To Die theme song, from future Number Ones subject Billie Eilish, is already out in the world.) Only one of those 25 theme songs has ever made it to #1. DURAN DURAN JAMES BOND MOVIE( No Time To Die, the latest Bond film, was the first big movie to have its release delayed by the pandemic. To date, there have been 24 movies in the Bond franchise, and there have been 25 opening-title themes. It’s how every James Bond movie has to start. Some popular-in-the-moment singer howls vaguely impenetrable pseudo-poetry. Stylized cartoon guns fire bullets in extreme slow-motion. Silhouettes of women appear and shed clothes. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ![]()
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