GETTY/LUCASFILM Star Wars composer John Williams has shockingly revealed he has never seen any of the movies

The Oscar-winning composer has written some of the most famous film themes from Indiana Jones and Jaws to Harry Potter and Home Alone. However its the Star Wars themes he is probably best known for, from the main Overture to The Imperial March. The composer admitted he hasn’t watched any of the Star Wars films in their entirety – four of which starred Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, who tragically died earlier today.

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He said: “I let it go. I have not looked at the Star Wars films and that’s absolutely true. “When I’m finished with a film, I’ve been living with it, we’ve been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, ‘Ah, it’s finished.’ “Now I don’t have an impulse to go to the theatre and look at it. “Maybe some people find that weird, or listen to recordings of my music very, very rarely.”

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The 84-year-old added: “I’m not particularly proud of that, I have to say, but it’s also part of the fact that I finished Star Wars now and I’m already working on Spielberg’s new film and I don’t want to listen to music or see films.” While the composer lacks the urge to watch any of the sci-fi films, he also revealed he doesn’t think the extremely memorable themes are that memorable at all. Williams added: “I don’t know. A lot of them are not very memorable and so on. It’s probably the most popular music that I’ve done. “People will ask me what’s your favourite score and this and that. I’ve done concertos and symphonies and other things that are some good, some not so good. “Some are played and many are rightfully forgotten. But I think we’re all the same in this sense that you look at your work or listen to your work and it’s children.”

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