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John Booth Talks About The Not-Often-Explored Corners Of John Williams Work

Guest Post by Author, John Booth Rob Wainfur was one of the very first total strangers to read my book about growing up on Star Wars called Collect All 21! (I mean, look: He has the now-uber-collectible author's amateur cover edition ) and he has been kind enough to publicly say nice things about it several times. This made for a seriously easy “YES!” when he asked if I'd like to contribute a guest blog for The Bearded Trio. Because I like to explore the memories and associations triggered by popular culture recollections and nostalgia, and because music so often comes with so many attached images and emotions, I decided to poke around in some not-often-explored corners of John Willams' work. John Williams was the first composer whose name and work I recognized - and who wasn't dead. He benefited, of course, from having his name attached to Star Wars , which, when I was a kid, made just about anything interesting. It turns out, for instanc...

Quick Fire Questions - Collect All 21! Author - John Booth

This week we have John Booth, the author of the excellent Collect All 21!  If you grew up in the seventies or eighties and you love Star Wars then you will absolutely love this book.  Taking you on a journey down Star Wars memory lane and bringing back those golden moments you may have forgotten from your childhood.  John Booth does a brilliant job of resurfacing memories of your first Star Wars toy or the first time you watch Star Wars on the big screen. John has also wrote a novel called  CrossingDecember s , writes for GeekDad and also has contributed for StarWars.com .  Lets fire those questions at John and see how he gets on. You're stuck in a swamp on Dagobah.  What one movie, TV show, album and book would you take? Movie: Extremely tough call, but I'm going with Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring . TV show: Assuming I can somehow get it off Netflix/Amazon and onto DVDs or something, The Wonder Years . Album: REM –...