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James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews & Interviews!

SPECTRE: Writing's on the Wall - Sam Smith Review

James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews & Interviews!

Tom & Chris

Roger, Lazenby, Timothy, Tv & Film, Pierce, Arts, Movies, Bond, Moore, Craig, Spy, 007, Connery, James, Daniel, Brosnan, Sean, Dalton, George

4.8688 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It's a red letter day for Bond fans across the world today with the big reveal of SPECTRE's title song, Writing's on the Wall by Sam Smith. The JBR team thought we'd leap into action and record a special emergency podcast dedicated to the new song, with a section by section break down, lyrical discussions and more!

Transcript

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0:21.7

Hello and welcome to a special emergency edition of James Bond Radio. Obviously, today was the release date of Sam Smith's writings on the wall. So we thought we'd jump online and make a quick podcast. Two episodes of JBR and one day, Chris. That's pretty magnificent, isn't it? Well, you know, on Christmas morning, you wake up up and you've got stocking at the end of the bed and it's full of presents you know Santa's been

0:26.1

and you're like oh man this is so good and you get your your present from Santa and then you go

0:31.5

downstairs and there's the tree twinkling in the lights and you've got there's another

0:37.0

present under the tree.

0:38.2

And it's a bit like that with today, really, isn't it?

0:40.7

Exactly like that.

0:41.7

With the way we're going on, man, it's probably going to be an episode every day before we

0:44.9

know it.

0:45.1

It's just going to get out of control.

0:47.0

I think it will.

0:48.2

We'll be like, yeah, Father Christmas every day.

0:51.0

Go. So, I guess the first thing to say is, writing's on the wall.

0:56.3

It's come out, obviously, out on iTunes.

0:57.6

You can listen to it on Spotify and various places like that.

1:00.6

So for you, Chris, what was the...

1:03.7

Because I'm over in the States at the minute, so I'm all jet lagged and all over the place.

1:07.9

So I couldn't just not stay up late to get it when it came out

1:11.7

on the morning in England. So I went to bed and woke up this morning and listened to it.

1:17.0

So how about you? How was your first listening session? Okay. So my first sort of listen,

1:23.2

well, basically it was released, was it 745 a.m. this morning. At that particular point, I was cycling

1:29.9

through a park and didn't have access to any audio equipment. But literally, I got to work.

1:36.1

I got on Spotify straight away, put my headphones in, made sure that no one was going to speak to

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