What they went with: Tina Turner, “Goldeneye”Īfter Timothy Dalton’s final outing as Bond in 1989’s License to Kill, there was a six-year hiatus in the film series – the longest gap between Bond films to date.
But is that a fair fate? We pondered what could have been, looking at the series’ ten best unused theme songs. These offerings might have changed the way we viewed those films, but instead, they have been for the most part forgotten. In fact, there have been plenty of unusual pitches over the years, with everyone from Pulp to Blondie to Radiohead contributing song pitches to the franchise, only to be rejected by the studio.
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Given the franchise’s tendency to ask generally established and uncontroversial singers like Adele or Sam Smith to perform Bond themes, the unorthodox Eilish seems like a bold choice – but it’s in keeping with other ways the studio seem to be shaking up Daniel Craig’s final film as Bond, with Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge becoming only the second woman to be credited on a Bond movie script, and True Detective director Cary Fukunaga the first American filmmaker to take the helm.Įilish, however, is not the only artist out of left field to vie for title honours in the Bond universe.
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Reportedly written and recorded in a tour bus in Texas over just three days, the finished track was ‘Bondified’ live by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and composer Hans Zimmer (both responsible for the film’s score), who formed a band along with Eilish, her brother Finneas, and a full orchestra. But Eilish’s highlight of the ceremony was surely her performance of her newly unveiled James Bond theme, “ No Time to Die”, which comes ahead of the film’s release in April. Billie Eilish had a pretty successful evening at the BRITs last night, with the 18-year-old artist adding the Best International Solo Female Artist award to her already large pile of Grammys (before having a backstage interview interrupted by a gushing Stormzy afterwards).
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