Top Gear is a BBC motoring programme first broadcast in 1977 and relaunched in its best known format in 2002. Its theme is Jessica, an instrumental written by Dickey Betts and released by the Allman Brothers Band on the 1973 album Brothers and Sisters. Different arrangements of the guitar tune have opened the show for decades, becoming inseparable from its presenters, challenges and track tests. Online, the short excerpt is reused as shorthand for cars, speed and British motoring television, appearing in parodies, fan edits and travel videos long after each episode aired.
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The Top Gear theme song is the Jessica guitar instrumental from the BBC motoring show, used for car reveals, road trips, racing edits and travel videos.
This is the upbeat instrumental theme best known as the Top Gear intro, built around a bright, twangy electric guitar melody over driving drums, bass and piano. The tune races along with a cheerful, freewheeling energy that instantly suggests open roads, powerful engines and a long journey ahead. Even without any cars on screen, listeners recognise the opening riff in seconds and expect something fast, fun and slightly mischievous to follow. It turns an ordinary drive, reveal or travel clip into a big television moment, adding confidence, momentum and humour before a single word is spoken.
