THE STAR WARS TRILOGY - SPECIAL EDITION
It is common to say "third time the best", and seems that in this occasion the said has been fulfilled lock, stock and barrel. The reissuing and updating of George Lucas' space saga trilogy has permitted the distribution and DEFINITIVE edition of John Williams' famous, spectacular and obligatory music. To these heights can seem iterative and superfluos to return it the sight back, and to recall how it was the film music panorama in 1977 when Star Wars was premiered, afterwards renowned and numbered as Star Wars IV: A New Hope, so perhaps it will be sufficient to say that the current popularity and uprise of soundtracks it owns, practically on its whole, to the success of Lucas' film.
Certainly in 1977 John Williams was not a nobody, as proved by his Oscar nominations for The Valley of the Dolls (1967), The Reivers (1969), Goodbye, Mr.Chips (1969), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Images (1972), Tom Sawyer (1973), Cinderella Liberty (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974), and his two Academy Awards for Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and, especially, Jaws (1975); and even though this last had resulted a spectacular success of sales (soundtrack's record editions were, on those days, a minority), their transcendency and importance remained to the waiting of the popular explosion of Star Wars. The double-LP published of its music went to the first sale posts all over the world, and altered radically the vision of the public toward the forgotten and reviled cinematographic music. Williams, very smartly, knew how to return to the classic roots of the gender (especially to the genial Erich Wolfgang Korngold) to recover a symphonic style that was seeming practically forgotten; since then, and with a style and increasingly mature and genial language, Williams has been maintained in the first place, so much at popularity level as of quality. And all this began with Star Wars, whose main theme is one of the most recorded and performed of all film history, that not only launched Williams to the definitive fame, but also the great Harrison Ford and his creator George Lucas.


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