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 1997 film Batman & Robin.

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 ...

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.

Rob Verhorst/Redferns/Getty Images 'The Wire' - IMDb user rating: 9.3 - Years on the air: 2002–2008. Tom Waits' "Way Down in the Hole," the theme song for the show, is actually from the 1987 ...

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.

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 ...