The lost James Bond song

Well, first let me say that Ray over at Pulses, verses and other flotsam is writing a great segment this week about the actors that played James Bond. He is ranking them and listing his reasons so go check it out. His topic inspired me to write about a lost James Bond theme song of sorts. Alice Cooper was originally contacted about doing the theme song for "The man with the golden gun". He was thrilled because he was a fan and he and his band recorded a song under that title. However the makers of the film decided not to use it because they were concerned that having Cooper's name associated with their film due to him being somewhat controversial. So they played it safe and brought in Lulu to do the theme song instead. Cooper, not wanting to waste his song stuck it on his band's Muscle of love album.