Who Would You Choose?
Former Destiny’s Child singer and wife of rapper Jay-Z Beyonce Knowles has been tipped to beat stick-thin mess Amy Winehouse in the battle to record the new James bond theme song for Quantum of Solace.
Music industry insiders claim that Beyonce, 26, is the film maker’s favourite after Winehouse, 24, started her, seemingly endless, downward spiral.
Mark Ronson, Amy’s producer, pulled the plug on the recording session for the theme due to her erratic behaviour.
He said: “We did work on it but we never finished it. I don’t think it will happen unless by some miracle it gets recorded and someone sings vocals.“I’m not sure Amy is ready to work on music yet.”
The drug-addled walking hair-do Winehouse was pretty livid about his comments but they made up at the Ivor Novello awards, with Amy claiming, “I’ve done loads of Bond songs I’m really happy with. I don’t know what the problem is.”
Her third album is on hold at the moment as her label wants her to clean up her act before they will release it. They are also holding her in her contract so she can’t make music for any other labels.
The choice is up to the late Bond producer Cubby’s daughter, Barbara Broccoli. If she gives the go ahead to Beyonce then she will likely start writing with British songwriter Amanda Ghost – who is currently writing songs for Beyonce’s next album, as well as Shakira’s new one.
John Barry, 74 who was the former 007 musical mastermind is also rumoured to contribute for the first time in two decades.
He orchestrated the Dr No music in 1962 and co-wrote mot of the themes for the first 25 years of the franchise. The new Bond film is released on October 31st.
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