All Time High (Octopussy)

The one we'd been putting off.In 1983, Octopussy gave Roger Moore his sixth outing as 007 — and handed John Barry and Tim Rice the job of writing the theme. The result was 'All Time High', sung by Rita Coolidge: a dreamy ballad that arguably has less "Bondness" than any theme before or since.This week, Morgan and Tom set the scene on a film made under the shadow of a rival Bond (Sean Connery's Never Say Never Again), revisit a Roger Moore many had written off, and then get stuck into the song itself — the least-known singer in Bond theme history, the title that doesn't mention the film, the chart flop, and why this one keeps landing at the very bottom of the rankings. Sorry, Rita.