{"id":5358,"date":"2013-10-24T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:05:37","slug":"was-alice-coopers-title-track-for-the-james-bond-film-man-with-the-golden-gun-turned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/10\/24\/was-alice-coopers-title-track-for-the-james-bond-film-man-with-the-golden-gun-turned-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Alice Cooper’s Title Track for the James Bond Film “Man With the Golden Gun” Turned Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Alice Cooper’s title track for the film Man with the Golden Gun was rejected by the film’s producers.<\/p>\n

Reader Richard wrote in to ask:<\/p>\n

Alice Cooper wrote the song “Man with the Golden Gun” (from his 1973 LP “Muscle of Love”) for the upcoming James Bond film with the same name, but it was rejected. <\/p>\n

I remember buying and enjoying that album when it came out and was anticipating hearing the song before the movie and was surprised when it wasn’t used. Throughout Cooper’s version there are snippets of the Bond theme and had a Bond feel to it. I’ve since read, over the years that the film producers rejected it, but never found out why. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A large chunk of what Richard says above is true.<\/p>\n

A few different artists were approached to possibly perform the title track to the 1974 James Bond film, The Man With the Golden Gun.<\/p>\n

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