Chart Review 30th May 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (4/4)	(1/4), (2/4), (3/4), (4/4).

My Chemical Romance appear stuck on the cusp of big chart hits, this week following up I'm Not Okay (I Promise) with the similarly frantic Helena, a Number 20 hit to follow a Number 19. The noise they make is by no means unpleasant and has a fantastic energy about it, could it just be that they are took traditionally rock to make a big commercial splash in 2005?

Amongst the also-rans outside the Top 20 this week is a genuine curiosity. Soundtrack singles are of course commonplace on the chart and have been for decades, no film worth its salt appears without at least one tie-in record even if they only qualify for as heard in the film status by playing for 30 seconds over the closing credits.

What is more unusual is for the orchestral scores from movies to become chart hits, but that is just what we have at Number 25 as John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra chart with Battle Of The Heroes from the score of the new Star Wars film. Not that movie legend John Williams hasn't done this before. His famous Theme From Superman reached Number 32 in 1979, the theme from ET hitting Number 17 in 1982. His last singles chart appearance as conductor came in 1993 when the Theme From Jurassic Park crept to Number 45.

His most successful composition is arguably the original 'Star Wars' theme, which although it did not chart here, became a Number 10 hit in America in 1977. Its success prompted producer Meco to record a disco reworking which duly topped the US charts and was a Number 7 hit here in that same year. No orchestral recording has ever topped the UK charts although the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra came close in 1982 when their medley single Hooked On Classics hit Number 2. That's it for this week (we'll gloss over the dismal performance of Brian McFadden's latest offering for fear of making his quite scary fans angry). Incidentally, I've got Oasis's - Lyla as my ringtone. Some of us have taste after all.

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