

One of the things we discovered is that, if it’s a good story, Paul will go with it. This five bedroom detached house was the family home of Mary McCartney, Paul McCartneys eldest daughter with his first wife Linda, for more than a decade. “Martin wouldn’t have been familiar with the terms of that contract, but Paul certainly would have. “When we saw those documents we couldn’t help but think it was just a misunderstanding,” Kozinn said. In addition, a memo confirmed that McCartney and “his musical group Wings will perform the title song under the opening titles.” Now when are you going to make the real track, and who shall we get to sing it?’ And George said, ‘What? This is the real track.’” In his 1979 memoir All You Need Is Ears, Martin said they added: “Now tell me, who do you think we should get to sing it? … You know – we’ve got to have a girl, haven’t we?’”Ĭontracts recovered by Kozinn and Sinclair show McCartney was paid $15,000 for “Live and Let Die,” and went on to earn another $50,000 through a share of the rights – a total of around $400,000 in current terms. The star, who first moved to Blossom Wood Farm in Peasmarsh in 1973, originally relocated to the small East Sussex village to bring up his five children away from the limelight. With a tennis court, pool, cabana, garage, and a location adjacent to 10 acres of town-owned, conserved land, he is truly living in the lap of luxury and privacy. In perhaps his most widespread retelling, McCartney once said that Bond film producers Harry Saltzman and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli initially listened to the completed track and “said to George, ‘That’s great, a wonderful demo. Neil Patrick Harris hit it big when he and husband David Burtka bought a 5.5 million-house that sits on 13.5 acres of land in East Hampton.
