How Radiohead Wrote the Perfect Bond Theme

Like every James Bond film that came before it, Spectre begins with a title sequence accompanied by a newly-written song. For this 24th installment in the franchise, Sam Smith provided ’Writing’s On The Wall’ for the opening, but they were not the first choice to provide a new song for the film. Radiohead were initally approached to write a new theme song, and what they delivered was, in my opinion, one of the greatest Bond themes ever written. In this video, I look at the musical components that make up a great Bond song, and consider what makes Radiohead’s ’Spectre’ so good. Purchase a PDF of the study score for Radiohead’s ’Spectre’: MY OTHER RADIOHEAD VIDEOS How Jonny Greenwood was Influenced by Penderecki: Radiohead’s Masterpiece in Orchestration: Radiohead: Pyramid Song - Analysis: