John Williams turns 75 today!!!

[Protozaius]

Happy birthday John Williams... MAN... YOU ROCK!!! :chew :chew :chew

Thank you for MANY years of music from:

"The Imperial March" :stormtroo :vader :stormtroo

to

"The Duel of the Fates" :lsvader


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[Batty]

Happy Birthday! :chew

Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Raiders, ET, Close Encounters and on and on. An amazing body of work!

[Darth Waller]

:chew :fest

[Wor-Gar]

John Williams has been my hero since I was 9 years old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!!!!!!!

[darth dypshyt]

Yay....Another "legend" that I share a birthday with!!:chew

[EVILFACE]

Who? .

[Seth Gecko]

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[lcummins]

It amazes me that John Williams scored so many films that are ranked in the top grossing films of all time! You could almost say that he "scored" the soundtrack to our lifes...

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[Seretur]

Here's to my favorite composer of the final quarter of the twentieth century!

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[The Josh]

Yeah, his works are truly some of the best I've ever heard. I love reading the novels while listening to the soundtracks. I do the same with the LOTR by Shore they both just add to the experience.

[SSC_Nerd]

Man, he's getting old. I don't wanna sound like a creep, but they better hurry and get rolling with Indy 4 so he can score the thing before anything happens.:monkey3 :monkey3

[ObiWan_67_D1138]

Wow...from episode 4, 5,6...then episode 1, 2, 3...and my very favorite, Superman, Thank you and Happiest of Birthdays to Mr. John Williams.
:fest
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[ObiWan_67_D1138]

Man, he's getting old. I don't wanna sound like a creep, but they better hurry and get rolling with Indy 4 so he can score the thing before anything happens.:monkey3 :monkey3

Yer awful...lol...but the thought did cross my mind also. If Indy is scheduled for summer of next year...I would think Williams would score it the beginning of 2008. Williams rocks!
:r2d2line

[darthviper107]

He should do scores for Star Wars Episodes 7, 8, and 9, you know just in case..:rolleyes:

[ObiWan_67_D1138]

He should do scores for Star Wars Episodes 7, 8, and 9, you know just in case..:rolleyes:

Sounds like a plan to me. Although, you don't think he'll be able to do that in his mid 80's? Maybe that's when we'll see ol' Georgie decide to go back and finish it all.:rotfl

[darthviper107]

It's not like composing is really strenuous on the body, just more on the fingers and arms. Unless he gets some kind of disease then he should be good for some more movies.

[Gruson]

The man that truly made the classics.

Star Wars Trilogy
Indy Trilogy
E.T.
Superman
Close Encounters

and many more!

No one will ever be better than Williams.

[Seretur]

No, indeed.

Here are some more fabulous scores, whatever you might think of the films:

The Fury
1941
The Accidental Tourist
The Witches of Eastwick
Empire of the Sun
JFK
Nixon
Seven Years in Tibet
Amistad
AI
Harry Potter 1, 2, 3
Catch Me if You Can
Memoirs of a Geisha

No composer, be it classical, popular, or predominantly film-oriented, has such a wide-ranging sensibility, and such class. Maestro Williams is a true gentleman, and a person I look up to in so many ways.

May his years to come be very blessed.

[darthviper107]

He only did the first and second Harry Potter movies, then they had someone else do it.

[Wor-Gar]

You could almost say that he "scored" the soundtrack to our lifes...

:fireworks

I love that.

For me, an avid soundtrack collector since 9 (my first collection), this is all too true.

[darth dypshyt]

And don't forget that classic tune, that everyone Hums when going near the water!!!

JAWS

[PosterBoyKelly]

Man, he's getting old. I don't wanna sound like a creep, but they better hurry and get rolling with Indy 4 so he can score the thing before anything happens.:monkey3 :monkey3


I'm saying the same thing about Ford:lol

Superman's theme is the best of his work IMO.

[Seretur]

He only did the first and second Harry Potter movies, then they had someone else do it.

Actually, he wrote the entire scores for the first and the third one; for the second, he wrote the new themes, and had his orchestrator, William Ross, write the full score.

The fourth film was scored by Patrick Doyle, using only the Main Title from the available palette of Williams' themes.

[anakin1138]

Favorite Composer Ever... His Melodies are the best in Movie history... Thanks For everything... If you'll ever see this....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEGEND!!!


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[Coheteboy]

Definitely my favorite composer of all time.

:::listens to space camp:::

[Kyuzo]

Belated b-day John. In the 501st, we always have the Imp march playing on someone's car audio or ringtone whenever we're suiting up and going on a troop. When we marched at the Rose parade, to hear it played by the band made me realize how his music pretty much defined the movie's atmosphere and added to our image of might to the spectators.

Here's to many more John. :D