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SUPER SONIC: THE MUSIC OF SOLO
MUSIC FOR ANOTHER GALAXY
omposing the score for a
C major motion picture is not
a task to be taken lightly,
exponentially when the job
Super and the pressure increases
in hand is to craft new music
for a movie series known for its incredible
soundtracks. However, accomplished British
composer John Powell was more than ready
to take on Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Sonic
What inspiration did you take from John
Composer John Powell created a Williams’ work on Star Wars?
distinctive score of original Star John Powell: There is a certain musical language
that John Williams used in the Star Wars fi lms,
Wars music for Solo: A Star Wars and I’ve tried to live up to the quality of what he
Story, which also included a new had done before by keeping form and structure
within the score and following the storytelling as
piece of work from the legendary honestly and elegantly as possible.
composerJohn Williams.
What inspired you most from the original
Star Wars scores?
There is a lot of thematic material from the
original movies that I used that was not specifi c
to Han. It was specific to the Millennium Falcon,

