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MI6 looks ahead to "Another Way To Die", the title
song for "Quantum of Solace",
with details on the music video and sleeve artwork...
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"Another Way To Die" Preview
8th September 2008
Jack White and Alicia Keys were officially announced
as performing "Another Way To Die", the theme song for the 22nd
James Bond film "Quantum
of Solace", on 29th
July 2008. With just weeks to
go before the new movie hits cinema
screens around the world,
details of the latest title track are coming to light.
Alicia Keys spoke of her collaboration
with Jack White at the Toronto International Film Festival
where she was promoting her new film "The Secret Life
of Bees", while White was there with "It Might
Get Loud," a documentary on the electric guitar. The
duo filmed the music video to the track in Toronto over
the weekend. Keys wouldn't detail what was in the video,
but she admitted "it would be a little sexy." As
for the musical leanings, she described it as "rock
'n' soul."
"It feels very Bond, really brash
and hard and super cool. It has a lot of valleys and peaks
in it. That's what I love about it," Keys said in
an interview at the festival. "It was great to work
with Jack White. I've always been a big fan of the White
Stripes and so for us to kind of combine this kind of rock
and soul feeling, it was a lot of fun."
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Above: 7" single vinyl cover artwork |
"And I saw the film," said Keys teasingly. "It's
amazing. I don't know how they can get that may stunts in one
movie."
A limited edition 7" vinyl single will
be released in the UK on September 29th 2008 for £3.49. "Another Way To Die" will
feature on Side-A, with an instrumental version on Side-B. Alicia
Keys' label J Records
will be releasing the single. The cover art will feature the
iconic gun barrel in metallic gold.
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"Jack took
the lead on the song,
but I added my style with his"
- Alicia
Keys
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The White Stripes and The Raconteurs
frontman White, who wrote, produced and sang on the track, said: "After
a couple of years of wanting to collaborate with Alicia Keys,
it took James Bond himself to
finally make it happen. Very
inspiring to watch. It gave me a new voice, and I wasn't myself
anymore. I drummed for her voice and she mimicked the guitar
tones, then we joined our voices and screamed and moaned about
these characters in the film and their isolation, having no one
to trust, not even themselves. Maybe we became them for a few
minutes."
As well as being the first duet in Bond theme history, it will
also be the first analogue track in twenty years: "Alicia
put some electric energy into her breath that cemented itself
into the magnetic tape. We wanted to push soul into those tapes,
and join the family of Barry, Bassey, Connery and Craig".
Joined in the studio by The Memphis Horns, White said additional
musicians from Nashville also helped with the historic track.
Date Stream
Title: Another Way To Die
Composers/Writers: Jack White
Producers: Vlado Meller, Mark Petaccia, Vance Powell,
Josh Smith, Jack White, Nathan Yarboro
Musicians: Alicia Keys, Jack White, Jack Hale, Wayne Jackson,
Jack Lawrence, Laura Matula, Tom McGinley, Lyndsay Pruett, Michael
Rinne,
Lindsay, Smith-Trostle
Mixers:
Vance Powell, Jack White
