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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,
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