You Know My Name
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You Know My Name is the title song for the 21st official James Bond film Casino Royale, sung by Chris Cornell, frontman of the alternative rock group Soundgarden and Audioslave. It was written and composed by Chris Cornell in collaboration with David Arnold, the composer of the film music of Casino Royale.
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The song
Musically one of this song to the most brutal title track of the film series - in adaptation to the complete realignment of movies with Casino Royale - and is often compared to Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney and Wings - also of Cornell itself when working with Arnold he tried to avoid anything Bond - Typical. Nevertheless, the song should ultimately embody the "essence " of it.
The structure of the song itself is strongly reminiscent of the beginning of On Her Majesty 's Secret Service: also there follows a hard, staccato instrumental use a quieter passage, whereupon the song continued to intensify until the end. The title song of the film On Her Majesty was the first, in which the composer did not look able to incorporate the movie title in the lyrics. Then an instrumental piece was written.
The text describes mainly the difficulties that a classic secret agent is faced as betrayal ("The odds will betray you" ) or necessary callousness ( " Forget how to feel" ), but also contains references to gambling - a central element in film. So a spinning wheel ( "Life is gone with just a spin of the wheel" ) is used as a metaphor or a hidden hand ( "Try to hide your hand" ) mentioned.
Music Video
The music video premiered on October 31, 2006 in MTV's Making the video premiere. It consists of sequences with Cornell, who accompanied the song on an acoustic guitar in front of a spotlight wall, various partially previously unreleased scenes from Casino Royale together with a plot around Cornell: He checked into a plane and discovers a woman. On the plane, he must fight his excitement. Next, we see him in a car with this woman. He is accompanied in a hotel where he finally met with standing in front of a window. These sequences are the Casino Royale scenes linked so that it appears as if Bond ever is near. So Cornell sees starting aircraft out the window and discovers Bond over the roofs rennend ( from the chase in Madagascar). Parallel to the car scenes with Cornell one sees Bond in his Aston Martin DBS, the kidnappers Vesper Lynd's track and lose control of the car.
The video was made during filming directed by Michael Haussmann on October 10th and 11th in Los Angeles. The version used is the first published here Pop Mix.
Use in the film
You Know My Name is played in the background of the computer-animated opening credits, which was created for the fifth time in Bond history by Daniel Kleinman. Before fighting game cards ornaments computer- animated characters, under which James Bond is always recognizable by his black tuxedo. The defeated by him figures break down to playing cards.
On the basis of the screenplay Kleinman initially developed visual ideas. In consultation with the director Kleinman gave up dancing women and emphasized instead the connected well with Bond gambling - it also makes the original envelope motif of the novel. He turned with a separate team some fight scenes and shots of Craig to adequately introduce him in his first film. Since he the title song - and in particular the text - early had available, he could do the opening credits it well. Most of the time then took a digital effects, the actual texts came at the very end.
Background
In the run- circulated many assumptions about the title song. Thus, among other things, Tony Christie, Robbie Williams, U2 and Tina Turner, who already for the Bond film GoldenEye contributed the title song of the same name, has been touted as potential performers. Especially stubbornly kept the rumor going around the British band Goldfrapp, taken from a variety media. Shortly after this denied David Arnold, the composer of the film. He thereby also announced an early announcement of the already established artist.
July 20, 2006 Chris Cornell confirmed in Finnish newspaper Ilta - Sanomat his participation. Shortly thereafter, on July 26, also the title of You Know My Name, the compositional collaboration with David Arnold was announced in an official announcement.
He joined The Living Daylights a-ha the first title song of a James Bond film, which is interpreted by a male singer, and with All Time High by Rita Coolidge in the film Octopussy only the second, of the lyrically no references to has movie title.
Publication and versions
On 20 September 2006, two months after the confirmation of Cornell, a trailer was released, could be heard in the first extracts. Meanwhile, also circulated already an mp3 file of the full song on the internet. On the single, it is represented as the main version. Another version with a larger orchestra was used for the music video. This version was recently also been heard on the official MySpace profile for Chris Cornell. It is provided primarily for radio played and is referred to on the single as a pop mix. It is the preferred Cornell.
The final version used in the film is again a different: Here the emphasis is clearly placed on Bond typical Brass, replacing a large part of the guitar ( the completely played by horns intro in particular ). It is due to the length of the leader about a minute shorter. This variant is also played again in next abbreviated version in the credits.
A fourth version with slightly entschlackter instrumentalization without strings and with much less brass instruments can be heard in the official MySpace of Casino Royale. All versions also differ in intonation of each other. So is sung Mix " I've seen this diamond" in the pop, while all the others " I've seen diamonds" include.
On 13 November 2006 the Main version was first made available in the iTunes store. You Know My Name was released in Germany on 1 December 2006 as a single, but in the UK only on the 11th and the USA. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the song reached on 14 December 2006, the top 20 in the UK it moved to number seven on the charts before.
On the official soundtrack CD this song is first thing in the Bond film history not included. However, it can be heard on Cornell's second solo album, Carry On, which was released in June 2007. This was at the request of Cornell himself since he claimed the song itself.