The opening theme music from a TV show can become an earworm — just think of Mission: Impossible or Peter Gunn. For composers, coming up with something catchy is like trying to write a Top 40 hit.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan had some interesting reservations about writing the theme song for Joel Schumacher's ...

Now they don’t write theme songs at all. At most, they might pick an actual old-timey tune, a real one — and just pay the old songwriter a lot more than $750 for it. This story has been updated.

There is enormous kudos attached to writing and performing a Bond theme. “Every time we do [a new film], you get asked by some of the biggest artists in the world [if they can write the theme ...

Rachel Bloom discusses Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rebecca, her mental health journey, the challenge of penning a new theme song every season and the joy of tap dance breaks.

At 18 years old, Eilish will become the youngest artist ever to write and record a Bond theme song, according to the official announcement. Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber.

It took Lalo Schifrin all of three minutes to write his famed theme — set to an unusual 5/4 time signature — for the TV series “Mission: Impossible.” “Orchestration’s not the problem ...

Rufus Wainwright talks about writing and performing "Secret Sister," the closing song for "Rebel Hearts," a documentary about activist nuns.