Ken Thorne

Ken Thorne is a British composer whose most high-profile assignments were for director Richard Lester. Thorne scored most of Lester's films since Help! (the "musketeer" films and Robin and Marian being notable exceptions). Most of his work for Lester has involved adapting other music, whether it is The Beatles, Richard Wagner, or Stephen Sondheim. Thorne himself has noted that this is one of his particular strengths. He used John Williams's music for Lester's Superman II and Superman III. While the former is mainly a rehash of Williams's material (with thinner orchestration and slightly diminished performance), the latter contains lots of new material to fit the more comedic aspects of that film. Thorne remained very active in scoring for television until his death in 2014.

Superman II

Superman III