Editing Licence to Kill (section)

===Music===
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Initially [[Vic Flick]], who had played lead guitar on [[Monty Norman]]'s [[James Bond Theme|original 007 theme]], and [[Eric Clapton]] were asked to write and perform the theme song to ''Licence to Kill'' and they produced a theme to match Dalton's gritty performance, but the producers turned it down<ref name="Rogers (2008)">{{cite news|last=Rogers|first=Jude| author-link = Jude Rogers |title=Film & Music: Music: For your ears only|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=31 October 2008}}</ref> and instead [[Gladys Knight]]'s song and performance was chosen. The song was based on the "horn line" from "[[Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey song)|Goldfinger]]", seen as an homage to [[Goldfinger (film)|the film of the same name]],<ref name="Rogers (2008)"/> which required royalty payments to the original writers.<ref name="UKC4TV">{{cite video | people =Walden, Narada Michael |year=2006 | title =James Bond's Greatest Hits | medium =Television | location =UK | publisher =North One Television}}</ref> The song gave Knight her first British top-ten hit since 1977.{{sfn|Barnes|Hearn|2001|p=179}} The end credits feature the Top 10 R&B hit "[[If You Asked Me To]]", sung by [[Patti LaBelle]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Dingwall|first=John|title=DVD Reviews|newspaper=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]|date=12 July 2002}}</ref>

[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]] was originally intended to score but was not available at the time due to throat surgery after suffering a [[Boerhaave syndrome|rupture of the esophagus]] in 1988 and it was considered unsafe to fly him from his home in [[New York (state)|New York]] to [[London]] to complete the score, post-production was extended to allow Barry time to recover.<ref name=":1" /> The soundtrack's score was composed and conducted by [[Michael Kamen]], who was known for scoring many action films at the time, such as ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' and ''[[Die Hard]]''.{{sfn|Smith|2002|pp=231–2}} Glen said he picked Kamen, feeling he could give "the closest thing to John Barry."<ref name="glen"/>