liverpoolecho 27 may 2013 http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/music/mark-moraghan-sings-james-bond-4020429
Mark is joining fellow vocalist Hannah Levane, conductor Carl Davis and the massed ranks of the RLPO in the June 12 concert which forms part of the Phil’s annual Summer Pops series.
“Unfortunately, I’m not going to be Bond,” he shrugs. “But the next best thing is singing a few songs from the films.”
Those songs include the full range of 50 years of the British agent film franchise, stretching From Russia With Love to Quantum of Solace via Goldfinger, Casino Royale and Live and Let Die.
The only one in Mark’s repertoire already is in fact the latter, which Paul McCartney and Wings penned for the 1973 Roger Moore film, and which the actor sang when he played Dr Frankenstein in the Royal Court’s Christmas show, A Nightmare on Lime Street.
“McCartney can’t sing it in the original key any more, and when I was told I was doing Live and Let Die I was ‘Oh no, that’s too high for me’,” he reveals. “But there are a couple of killers in this that are really high.
“One is Another Way to Die, which was written by Jack White and Alicia Keys for Quantum of Solace. We’re doing that in the original key, so I’m going to let Hannah take the lead on that and I’ll just slot in behind!”