An illustrated introduction to the life and work of the Maestro by long-time fan and researcher Cláudio Leyria.
Download the John Williams Sticker Album (PDF)
About the author:
Cláudio Leyria, a Brazilian fan of John Williams since he was 8 years old, made a sticker album with John’s biography, collecting photographs and researching data about the composer. In fact, Leyria has been researching John Williams for 40 years, before the internet.
Leyria has been a journalist for 35 years. He currently works at a textbook publishing company. In his free time, he produces sticker albums on a variety of topics, just for fun. The Grey Cow Editorial is just a fan work, not to make money. He planned this book about John Williams for a year, needing to collect new data so that the album would have the minimum amount of good information about the composer’s childhood, life and work.
Leyria became a fan of John Williams with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He can’t say which soundtrack is John’s best, but Raiders is one of his favorites.
The sticker album provides a good summary of John’s life and work, information about his musical family, his early work, his origins in the world of jazz, his most important films, his association with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, his time with the Boston Pops, all of his Oscar nominations (and the ones he won), many tributes, many other awards and other important colleagues. It’s a very moving album!