It's ten years ago that out of the blue on Christmas Day, Radiohead surprise-released a rejected Bond theme they’d made for the franchise’s 2015 film Spectre. It felt a little odd that one of the world’s best bands had gone to all that effort only for it to be kiboshed, possibly after its been tied to a table and had an industrial laser slice through hit.
But Radiohead are far from alone in that regard. A host of stars have had a crack at a Bond theme over the years only for producers to go looking elsewhere. Here’s a selection that were written, recorded and rejected – some better than the ones that were used. And some not.
