The L. A. rock band The Tooners have released a new single that
is their original take on a theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie
starring Daniel Craig. No Time To Die is the 25th James Bond movie and
will hit theaters this coming April. However, The Tooners’ song No Time
To Die will probably not be heard in the film.
The Tooners' No Time To Die lyric video.
Although the band members and the song’s co-writers Neal Warner and
Greg Piper are life-long Bond fans, their Bond theme is actually more
inspired by shock rock group Alice Cooper. Also fans of the movie
franchise, the original lineup of the band Alice Cooper wrote and
recorded the song The Man With The Golden Gun as a proposed theme song
for the film of the same name starring Roger Moore as secret agent 007.
The producers of the Bond films felt using pop acts such as Paul
McCartney, Carly Simon and Lulu (who sang the actual theme song for The
Man With The Golden Gun) for the movie theme songs was appropriate but a
hard rock band such as Alice Cooper didn’t fit the James Bond image and
the song was rejected. The band went ahead and released it on their
1973 album Muscle Of Love anyway.
This inspired the independent band The Tooners to record their own
Bond theme inspired by Alice Cooper’s initiative and even the Salvador
Dali inspired look of their song’s logo has an Alice Cooper connection
as Alice Cooper, the man as opposed to the band, is the only rock
musician known to have ever collaborated with the surrealist painter.
No Time To Die is also included on The Tooners' full length CD, Theme To A Dream, available everywhere starting April 1, 2020.
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