Buddy Holly’s ‘Everyday’ Was The Original Good Omens Theme Song

In the introduction to the official script book for the show’s first season, “The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book,” Gaiman explains that Holly’s song was actually set to appear throughout season 1, and was even originally planned as the show’s theme song. “In the scripts, Buddy Holly’s song ‘Every Day’ runs through the whole like a thread,” Gaiman writes. “It was something that Terry had suggested in 1991, and it was there in the edit.” There were plans for various cover versions of “Everyday” across season 1 and its mentioned throughout the scripts, starting in the Garden of Eden scene in the pilot and ending at the epic airfield climax.

The script book includes cues for these proposed needle drops in great detail. In the first episode, after Crowley and Aziraphale discuss the ethics of their respective roles in the Garden of Eden, Gaiman writes that “Buddy Holly’s song ‘Everyday’ plays, beginning with a tick tick tick and … Every day it’s a-getting closer.” 

In other episodes, the song is reimagined in a 1960s style, “Langley-School-music-project-style,” as a lullaby and a choral rendition, and even with lute music like that of “a seventeenth-century folk piece or chorale.” The description of the final version of “Everyday” is the most evocative, playing twice in the 5th episode as the airfield showdown begins in earnest. According to the scripts, the song first plays on Crowley’s radio before once again popping up in the episode’s last seconds:

“And over the credits, the pounding, crazy-ass, heavy metal Hell-chords transmute into a world-ending metal version of ‘Everyday.'”