Initially Eric Clapton and Vic Flick were asked to write and perform the theme song to Licence to Kill.

[1] A track purporting to be the unused Clapton/Flick theme was uploaded to the music sharing website SoundCloud in January 2022 and was later confirmed to be genuine.

The song was composed by Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff, based on the "horn line" from Goldfinger, which required royalty payments to the original writers.

The music video of "Licence to Kill" was directed by Daniel Kleinman, who later took over the reins of title designer from Maurice Binder for the 1995 Bond film, GoldenEye.

In January 2025, La-La Land Records released a remastered and expanded edition of the score, commemorating the film's 35th anniversary.