[Graham Watt]

Thor, don’t you have all the John Williams family tree background to have started on an exhaustive biography? Has Tim Grieving nipped that venture in the bud?

Let me think… Books on the shelf beside me –

MÚSICA PARA LA IMÁGEN by composer Jose Nieto
JAMES BERNARD: COMPOSER TO COUNT DRACULA by David Huckvale (he’s a great writer)
JAZZ IN THE MOVIES by David Meeker (invaluable before the days of online clickery)
EL LEGADO MUSICAL DE LA HAMMER by Antonio Piñeira
ALEX NORTH: EL VIAJERO IMPENITENTE by Frederic Torres
KNOWING THE SCORE by Irwin Bazelon (I stole this from the library when I was a kid, and they haven’t caught me yet)
THE ART OF FILM MUSIC by George Burt (excellent)
ENCICLOPEDIA DE LAS BANDAS SONORAS by Conrado Xalabarder
LA MÚSICA EN EL CINE by Russell Lack (I have the Spanish translation – it’s actually “Twenty Four Frames Under” I think)
U.S. SOUNDTRACKS ON CD by Robert L. Smith (these things go out of date immediately, but it’s interesting to look at in retrospect)
THE MUSIC OF STAR TREK by Jeff Bond (great, and there’s a new one due)
MUSIC FOR PRIME TIME by John Burlingame
FILM SCORE by Tony Thomas (looking quaint and square nowadays)
GRAMOPHONE: FILM MUSIC: GOOD CD GUIDE (just seen the spine of this. What on Earth is it?)
LA MÚSICA EN EL CINE by Michel Chion (translated from the original French)
HAMMER FILM SCORES AND THE MUSICAL AVANT-GARDE by David Huckvale (superb)
MUSIC FROM THE HOUSE OF HAMMER by Randall Larson
INTRODUCCIÓN A LA HISTORIA DE LA MÚSICA EN EL CINE by Carlos Colón Perales
SOUNDTRACK: THE MUSIC OF THE MOVIES by Mark Evans (another one which now seems old, quaint and square)
TV COMPOSER GUIDE by John Williams (not THE John Williams, and not even the guitarist)
CIEN BANDAS SONORAS EN LA HISTORIA DEL CINE by Roberto Cueto
PENTAGRAMAS DE PELICULA by Juan Padrol
NOMBRES DE LA BANDA SONORA by Jose Maria Benitez and Luis Miguel Carmona)

I had no idea I had so many.