With the brand new 007 movie SPECTRE only a couple of weeks away from release, and Sam Smith’s new single Writing’s On The Wall riding high at the top of the UK charts, the British public have been out in force voting for their favourite Bond theme of all time.
perhaps unsurprisingly Adele’s Skyfall from the film of the same name topped the poll, which was conducted by Bingocams. The track, from the 2012 film of the same name, attracted a huge 366 votes out of the poll of 1700 people, nearly double that of its nearest rival, Paul McCartney and Wings’ superb Live and Let Die, which bagged 188 votes.
Shirley Bassey’s scored a double-whammy with third and fourth place with her themes from Diamonds Are Forever (160 votes) at the number three position, and Goldfinger with 147 votes in fourth. Carly Simon’s Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me just made the top five with 120 votes.
Surprisingly, Smith’s theme from the upcoming SPECTRE, the 24th Bond film that will be released on October 26th in the UK, scored 66 votes putting it at the number nine position, beating Gladys Knight’s Licence To Kill, Sheena Easton’s For Your Eyes Only, and even Aha’s The Living Daylights. This is sure to cause a little controversy.
We’ve posted the full list of the UK’s most popular Bond themes below. Do you agree with the them?
‘Skyfall’ – Adele (2012) 366 votes
‘Live and Let Die’ – Paul McCartney & Wings (1973) 188 votes
‘Diamonds are Forever’ – Shirley Bassey (1971) 160 votes
‘Goldfinger’ – Shirley Bassey (1964) 147 votes
‘Nobody Does it Better’ – Carly Simon (1977) 120 votes
‘A View to a Kill’ – Duran Duran (1985) 82 votes
‘We Have All the Time in the World’ – Louis Armstrong (1969) 77 votes
‘GoldenEye’ – Tina Turner (1995) 76 votes
‘Writing’s on the Wall’ – Sam Smith (2015) 66 votes
‘Licence to Kill’ – Gladys Knight (1989) 66 votes
‘For Your Eyes Only’ – Sheena Easton (1981) 63 votes
‘Die Another Day’ – Madonna (2002) 62 votes
‘The World is Not Enough’ – Garbage (1999) 51 votes
‘You Know My Name’ – Chris Cornell (2006) 46 votes
‘The Living Daylights’ – Aha (1987) 46 votes
‘Another Way to Die’ – Jack White & Alicia Keys (2008) 41 votes
‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ – Sheryl Crow (1997) 41 votes
‘From Russia with Love’ – Matt Monro (1963) 36 votes
‘Moonraker’ – Shirley Bassey (1979) 26 votes
‘You Only Live Twice’ – Nancy Sinatra (1967) 20 votes
‘Thunderball’ – Tom Jones (1965) 15 votes
‘All Time High’ – Rita Coolidge (1983) 12 votes
‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ – Lulu (1974) 8 votes
