And because this particular Bond is very edgy, but also has a lot of emotional depth, it's a lot easier.' Later the two musicians met to share their ideas, and according to Arnold 'it was almost like we wrote two parts of the same song.' Cornell wrote lyrics, to which Arnold added some lines and later music. Cornell said, 'It is difficult, I think, to write lyrics for a character, so really I just kind of wandered around for about a month not thinking about it too much, until I sort of formulated some idea of a way that I could approach it, where I'm kind of relating to what's in the character in the movie. The composers started their writing separately, Cornell in his apartment in Paris, and Arnold in his house in London. In Prague he also met the film's composer, David Arnold, who suggested writing a song 'that echoed the film score'. He then went to Prague to visit the film's shooting location, and was impressed with its emotional content when he was shown a rough cut.

But Daniel Craig's casting as James Bond intrigued him, and he decided to accept. Cornell declared he liked the Bond movies, particularly the ones with Sean Connery, but that he 'wasn't really a big fan of the last several movies'. Cornell thought it was a strange offer, considering that he was American, and assumed he would perform a secondary song instead of the main theme. Lia Vollack, Sony Pictures's President of Music, called Chris Cornell inviting him to make a song for the new Bond movie, which would 'reflect the dramatic new direction of James Bond', with a 'strong male singer'. It was not included in the Casino Royale soundtrack, but appeared on Cornell's second solo album, Carry On. Reviews of the song were positive it won the Satellite Award and the World Soundtrack Award, and was nominated for a Grammy Award. It sold 148,000 copies in 2006 in the UK, and has sold 323,000 digital copies and garnered 3.5 million streams in the U.S.

It charted in many countries, notably peaking at No. The track was leaked onto the Internet on September 20, 2006, and later released as an official single on Novemthrough Interscope Records. Cornell and Arnold tried to make the song a replacement theme for the character instead of the ' James Bond Theme' reflecting the agent's inexperience in Casino Royale, as well as an introduction to Daniel Craig's grittier and more emotional portrayal of Bond. The film producers chose Cornell because they wanted a strong male singer. ' You Know My Name' is the theme song of the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, performed by American musician Chris Cornell, who wrote and produced it jointly with David Arnold, the soundtrack's composer.

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