Fleetwood Mac seemed uncannily absent from the charts when George Lucas painted early 1997 in the glowing hues of the sweet summer of 1977: You must learn the ways of the Force if you are to come with me to the multiplex…
Dark Times 11 – 1996 – Part 5
John Williams summoned the heroes at the Centennial Olympic Games, but a nerf-herder, her worshipfulness and a kid almost finding himself floating home equally prepared for victory: Star Wars continues its return to pop culture in 1996.
Star Wars was an intricate anomaly. Despite its close ties to 70ies zeitgeist it had superseded the regular status of a classic. Every generation that chanced upon George Lucas’ space opera felt instantly attracted to this peculiar property that grew independently of time and the concomitant limited fads.