Radiohead wrote the best James Bond theme song. You never got a chance to hear it.

Did you know that Radiohead was asked to write a theme song for Spectre, turned in an original masterpiece (after being declined a suggestion from a prior album session), but ultimately got rejected in favor of Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall?”

Lucky for us, Radiohead posted the song in all of it’s glory here:

And if you want to hear an absolutely lovely retelling of the story behind the song and a breakdown of the musical ancestry and musical theory behind it, you should absolutely check out this:

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