The Man with the Golden Gun

Morgan and Tom load the golden bullet and take on 'The Man with the Golden Gun', Lulu's much-maligned theme to the 1974 film — and end up mounting a spirited defence of it.

We set the scene on Roger Moore's second outing as 007, Christopher Lee's superb Scaramanga and a film often pegged as bottom-tier Bond, before turning to the music: John Barry's return after a film away, lyricist Don Black, and Barry's own brutal verdict on a song he hated. We dig into the unique end-credits version that actually names James Bond, the theme's unwanted record as the only Bond title track never to chart, Alice Cooper's rejected version that arrived "a day too late", and a slice of exclusive content as Morgan plays a clip of Lulu herself looking back on the song.

So is it really the worst Bond theme, or a short, sharp, underrated bit of fun? You decide.