“Writing’s On the Wall,” the James Bond theme that Sam Smith wrote for Spectre, is by all accounts a pretty boring song. Perhaps that’s why the crooner was a little defensive when he was asked if he ...

When Sam Smith hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts with his Spectre theme song “Writing’s On The Wall,” he not only beat Adele’s previous effort, “Skyfall,” which reached No. 2, but it was the first No.

Nobody was surprised when Sam Smith was tapped to sing the theme song of Spectre, the latest James Bond film -- after all, he's a logical follow-up to Adele, who took on the theme for Skyfall. But a ...