A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 1980 RSO Records and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) In 1985, after buying out the disco label RSO Records, British record company Polydor acquired the entire RSO catalog, which included the original two-record soundtrack for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which featured selections from the score composed and conducted by John Williams.  Polydor, through its PolyGram Records arm, had also acquired the rights to Williams' 1977 soundtrack from Star Wars, which had been released by the now-defunct 20th Century Records, a division of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. So when Polydor released the Star Wars soundtrack on the then-still new compact disc (CD) format from the analog recordings, the resulting album was a relatively faithful replica of its best-selling vinyl precursor. (The only differences between the long-play [LP] album and the 2-CD edition, other than format, were that the liner notes from the LP were not included and the 1977 gatefold's photos were present...