Tina Turner thought GoldenEye Bond theme ‘the worst’ after rock star despatched demo
Back in 1995, James Bond returned after a document six-year hole following Timothy Dalton’s final outing in 1989’s Licence To Kill.
Pierce Brosnan had bagged the position in GoldenEye, which wanted a tune worthy of rebooting 007 for the post-Cold War period.
Initially, Depeche Mode had been supplied the gig however the Essex synth-pop stars couldn’t get their schedule to line up.
Swedish band Ace of Base recorded a GoldenEye theme which was rejected and ultimately, Tina Turner would step up to speed.
But do you know that U2’s Bono and the Edge wrote the tune along with her in thoughts?
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Bono and The Edge recorded a best-forgotten demo that they then despatched to Tina, however she was removed from impressed with their model of GoldenEye.
The Queen of Rock beforehand advised Graham Norton on BBC Radio 2: “Bono sent me the worst demo. He kind of threw it together as if he thought I wasn’t going to do it. This song, I didn’t even know what key to practice it in!”
Nevertheless, Bono was decided to be the one to put in writing the Bond theme after having his honeymoon at Ian Fleming’s Goldeneye property in Jamaica.
Tina added: “It was unbelievable, what I was sent here. But, you know, you have to step into the shoes and learn it. And then I sung it how I would sing it, and even Bono was impressed.
“I actually had to come out of myself to make it a song. I’d never sung a song like that before, so it really gave me creativity in terms of making something out of something that was really rough, very rough.”
The outcome was an enormous Top 10 hit throughout Europe, topping the charts in Hungary and Poland and is now thought-about one of many best possible Bond theme songs.