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Nine Film Scores We Can't Believe Are Not in the Hall of Fame

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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...