However, Winehouse’s dream of taking up her place alongside Shirley Bassey, Carly Simon etc had come unstuck amid her addiction issues and declining health.
The first choice was Amy Winehouse, working with her regular producer Mark Ronson. White and Keys had not initially been on the radar of Quantum of Solace producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson. It’s both lame and tedious, and a majority of Bond fans felt this and lashed out against it.” It had neither the flash or the class that is generally associated with a Bond song. The song is not very interesting, either musically or lyrically, with cliches like the rat-a-tat brass and lines like ‘shoot ’em up bang bang’. “Unfortunately, what they delivered was a disappointment, creatively.
