10 Greatest James Bond Movie Opening Title Sequences

Roger Moore's first entry in the franchise led with the ears, initiating Bond into the seventies good and proper and introducing a new tongue-in-cheek sensibility that had been brewing in the background of the Connery years.

Maurice Binder played another blinder, with a composition built around beautifully styled and body-painted Caribbean and African-American models, in-keeping with the film's journeys through Harlem, New Orleans and several Caribbean Islands.

Granted, there is a brief foray into the kind of surreal hand-waving silhouettes that Binder made a habit of including in almost all of his titles, but for the most part, it is a slick, stylish and focused affair. Smoke and fire engulf almost every frame, with flickering titles falling into place and a sense of urgency to match the soundtrack.

Of course, the soundtrack is the element that is most fondly remembered. Written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by their band Wings, Live and Let Die is a symphonic rock showstopper that builds in tempo, with a soft and melodic verse that unloads into the chorus like a well-aimed Walther.