Terry O'Reilly

John Lennon married Yoko in Gibraltar.

Sean Connery married both his wives there.

Both James Bond and Paul McCartney were declared dead in 1967.

Both were a hoax.

Bond had Spectre, and the Beatles had Phil Spectre.

McCartney wrote the theme song for the Bond film Live and Let Die, and George Martin produced it.

Actor Christopher Lee is on the cover of McCartney's Band on the Run album, and Lee also played the villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.

Barbara Bach played a KGB agent in The Spy Who Loved Me and later loved and married Ringo Starr.

Tomorrow Never Dies is a play on the Beatles' song Tomorrow Never Knows.

In Quantum of Solace, actress Gemma Arterton's character is named Strawberry Fields.

Billie Eilish and her brother learned to write songs by listening to the Beatles.

Eilish's theme song for the Bond film No Time to Die won an Oscar.

Ringo handed her the award for Record of the Year at the Grammys.

Lastly, at Glastonbury 2022, both Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney performed, meaning two Bond themes were played on the same stage that year.

Love and Let Die is a fun read about the most successful band of all time and the most successful movie character in history.

Books are barbells for the mind.

If you want to be a good writer, read.

I fear there won't be enough time to get to all the books I want to read.

There are so many great ones out there.

Look what we found in those pages today.