[1] On describing how the job became his, Newman said, "I very shyly gave [Mendes] a call or emailed him and said, just so you know, I’d be overjoyed to do it, but would never want to be presumptuous.

Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau.

[8][2] The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman.

Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs".

by the French singer Charles Trenetl featured in the execution scene on the island, but was not included in the soundtrack.