Music has long been a crucial element of the mega-franchise that is STAR WARS. Composer John Williams' work for the 1977 original film set many youngsters on a their path to become film score composers…and many others to becoming film score fanatics. The Star Wars galaxy has grown over the last three decades to include books, comics, television and video games. While most of the best selling games made good use of the hours of original score written for the films, a couple of games of the 90s dared to break away from the musical-canon; the most famous of which is Joel McNeely's score for SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE. In later years, two of the most successful Star Wars video games featured original scores which incorporated excerpts from Williams' work. Bioware's RPG STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC and Obsidian's STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC II: THE SITH LORDS were hugely popular, award winning games that have become some of LucasArts top sellers.