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‘Succession’: how composer Nicholas Britell wrote the show’s iconic theme tune

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Game of Thrones, the creeping dread of Mad Men, or the wry, slapstick opening of Curb Your Enthusiasm, a theme song that has almost become shorthand for getting yourself into a tricky and painfully awkward situation.Succession – the hit HBO show that follows the mega-rich Roy family in a sharp study of inherited wealth and limitless power – benefits from having one of these instantly-iconic themes.

Penned by composer Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, The Big Short), it’s a dizzying, disorientating and dissonant piece that has been described as having “deranged magnetism” and a “smashed-music-box sound”.It’s been so culturally embraced that the music has inspired endless memes.

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