I'm not sure why but in 1973, when I was 9 years old, I went to see James Bond: Live and Let Die by myself. The movie blew my mind. It was full of things I had never really experienced like New Orleans Voodoo and rednecks. When I was young, a redneck was a cross between a narc and a poseur. In the general sense a redneck was someone that didn't do anything bad and would tell on you if did something bad, but also tried to hang out and blend in. I found these new rednecks even funnier. The Voodoo priest, Baron Samedi, actually scared me. (His real name was Geoffrey Holder and he went on to put the lime in the coconut in the 7up commercials.) I was uneasy walking home in the dark after that one. It was the first James Bond movie that I ever saw so, to me, Roger Moore IS James Bond. At least he was until Daniel Craig came along.
When talking about this movie, you have to mention the great song by Paul McCartney and Wings by the same name. The soundtrack to James Bond was the first full length album I bought with my own money. Of course I replayed the 'Wings song over and over but I did listen to and enjoy the rest of the soundtrack, which had been produced by the Beatles old producer, George Martin.
I never had really thought about how enveloped I was in that movie and music. Watching it now I remember those feelings of fear and excitement that the movie and the music gave me.
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