Radiohead failed to make the final cut for the Spectre soundtrack, according to their lead singer.

The Oxford band's vocalist Thom Yorke has revealed that they were asked to write a song for the latest James Bond film.

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He tweeted: "Last year we were asked to write a tune for Bond movie Spectre. Yes we were ... It didn't work out."

The former Abingdon School student Yorke, then posted a clip of the track and said: "As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas. May the force be with you."

The film's theme song was Writing's On The Wall by Sam Smith.

Lead singer Thom Yorke, and fellow band members Ed O'Brien, Colin and Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway met as Abingdon School pupils.

By 1991, they had formed Radiohead and began to get noticed in America with their teen-angst single Creep, taken from their first album Pablo Honey, recorded at Chipping Norton recording studios.

Then in 1995, The Bends, with tracks including High And Dry and Fake Plastic Trees, catapulted them into the big time.

They toured the world but kept Oxford as their base.