Nine Film Scores We Can't Believe Are Not in the Hall of Fame
Superman , John Williams Is it a bird? Is it a plane? etc. etc. Superman (1978) is surely one of John Williams ’s classic movie scores. His music for Star Wars , Saving Private Ryan , Jurassic Park , E.T. and Harry Potter have all made it into the top 300. But for reasons which are frankly a mystery to us, Superman is nowhere to be seen. The Magnificent Seven , Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein’s 1960 score for the Western classic The Magnificent Seven is a Classic FM favourite, but glance at last year’s Hall of Fame and the iconic music for John Sturges’s film is nowhere to be found. Let’s fix that. Raiders of the Lost Ark , John Williams The score for everyone’s favourite (and completely daft) American adventure film is right up there with the best movie music ever written –and yet it’s missing from the Classic FM Hall of Fame. What gives? Gone with the Wind , Max Steine...