Paul McCartney wrote his iconic Bond song, “Live and Let Die,” without having seen the script.

In his book The Lyrics , McCartney spoke about writing the iconic rock song on instinct, with very little knowledge about the plot.

“Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade, and I always had a sneaking ambition to do it,” he shared. “Ron told me the film was called Live and Let Die . The screenplay wasn’t finished at that point, so I got the Ian Fleming book, and it’s a real page-turner.”

The music icon was originally approached to make music for the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever . While McCartney had no idea what the Roger Moore film was about, he had an idea for the Bond theme.

“I didn’t want the song to be, ‘You’ve got a gun. Now go kill people. Live and let die.’ That’s just not me,” he shared. “I wanted it to be, ‘Let it go. Don’t worry about it.…