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For me, James Horner was the one I felt like being alongside things from the off.
With Williams (my entry point) and then Goldsmith, Barry, Bernstein etc, I knew they had been writing scores before I was born, so I had a lot of catching up to do.
But I was listening to Horner music from his beginnings, with the LPs of Battle Beyond and Humanoids.
It was such a thrill to discover this young, bright new talent as he was arriving and evolving, seeing the movies and marveling at the music.
While it was a joy to discover and buy new LPs like Krull and Brainstorm and Gorky Park, it was also a pain not to be able to buy stuff like Something Wicked or 48Hrs or Natty Gann.
My favourite years by him where his 80s and early 90s scores (that raw energy was intoxicating) but I followed his career and music all through and have everything by him (apart from that 20 minute Four Horsemen CD/DVD thing, although I do have a CDR of it).
He’s been neck and neck with Goldsmith over the years, in my Holy Trinity of film composers, although I think his music is ageing better than Jerry’s, in a lot of cases.
His ability to find the heart of a film and pack it with an emotional wallop was incredible.
The film world really does miss him.