Sam Smith Working On New Album

Smith’s track was the first Bond theme to achieve number one status in the British charts.

The four-time Grammy victor won the best original song award with Jimmy Napes for Writing’s On The Wall, the theme to the James Bond film Spectre. This, apparently, did not sit well with Smith, who not only has yet to hear the song, but might not even know who Yorke is.

Speaking to Graham Norton, Sam said: “I was scared because it’s terrible to sing as it’s so high”.

Does Sam Smith really have no idea who Thom Yorke is? Towards the end of 2015 Radiohead revealed they also wrote a song for the movie but lost out to Smith.

Sam – who is now working on his second album – went head-to-head with the likes of Ellie Goulding for “Love Me Like You Do” and Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again”.

Smith ultimately came away with the award and gave a giddy speech of excitement, thanking his writing partner Jimmy Napes and expressing his humbled astonishment.

Then, pointing to himself and leaning into the microphone, the 23-year-old adds: “because I did the Spectre theme song”.

Check out a video of the press conference, plus both Sam Smith and Radiohead’s versions of the Spectre theme song, below.

Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey, Manta Ray from Racing Extinction, Simple Song #3 from Youth and Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground are all contenders.