JW Sticker Album

[Ricard 2,275]

An illustrated introduction to the life and work of the Maestro by long-time fan and researcher Cláudio Leyria.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JgN4oweeEerWFmWzZ_010jZdUAV7fBco/view?usp=drive_link

 

About the author:

 

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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!

 

[Marian Schedenig 9,334]

It's… a sticker album… without stickers?

[BB-8 4,114]

I have page 20 twice. Anyone interested in swapping?

[Miguel Andrade 1,396]

How nice....

[Thor 8,632]

I don't understand what this is. A collection of Williams photos made into stickers?

[Jay 40,135]

It sounds like you do understand.

[bespinGPT 8,899]

MOUHAHAHAHA

[JonathanJPK 4]

This took me back to my 80s childhood and all those Panini sticker albums and the associated frustration at getting THE SAME stickers all the time! I would have loved to have owned this as a 8 year old! in fact I would love to own one now! :-)

[Jurassic Shark 13,641]

So Cláudio Leyria beat Tim Greiving in publishing an English language biography on JW. Congrats! 

 

While we're on the topic of stickers: when I searched for this book online, I found this site with stickers of album covers. I didn't know this is a thing.

 

https://albumcoverstickers.com/john-williams-the-post-album-cover-sticker-/

[Toillion 269]

4 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

It's… a sticker album… without stickers?

I'm not going to lie, I saw the title and got excited. I thought, my kid love stickers and have been into JW, I'll print some off and they'll love it! 

[Marian Schedenig 9,334]

53 minutes ago, Thor said:

I don't understand what this is. A collection of Williams photos made into stickers?

 

It's a collection of Williams photos made into something that looks like somebody already collected all the stickers and put them in.

 

This would be fun if we could actually print it and then "collect" (or at least randomly draw from our printed heap) the stickers and get excited about putting them in… but they're already printed where you're supposed to put them. You'd have to do some extra work to remove all of them or at least make them black and white, or blurry, or something.

[MaxFMusic 15]

This is so awesome, thank you very much for sharing it!

[Loert 2,774]

Hey, that's me on page 8!

 

On a serious note, this is very well put together. Thank you for sharing!

[Andy 5,372]

This… I want it to be a real physical thing.  Definitely got the old school Panini vibes off of this.  Dang I wish there were a real set like this, or a set of trading cards. 

[BB-8 4,114]

Love the irony between the lines on page 26!

 

[Miguel Andrade 1,396]

24 minutes ago, BB-8 said:

Love the irony between the lines on page 26!

 

 

I'm not really sure if that's accurate at all.

[BB-8 4,114]

16 minutes ago, Miguel Andrade said:

 

I'm not really sure if that's accurate at all.

Looks like it is, unless the below is fake:

The image represents the original poster of the opera Europa riconosciuta by Antonio Salieri, 1778, August 3.

Europa Riconosciuta Original Poster 1778 - L’Europa riconosciuta – Wikipedia

 

P.S. I wouldn't agree with what is said about VPO vs BPO. I take this as irony.

[Miguel Andrade 1,396]

1 hour ago, BB-8 said:

P.S. I wouldn't agree with what is said about VPO vs BPO. I take this as irony.

 

I was referring to what was said regarding the Vienna and Berlin orchestras 

[Thor 8,632]

13 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

It's a collection of Williams photos made into something that looks like somebody already collected all the stickers and put them in.

 

This would be fun if we could actually print it and then "collect" (or at least randomly draw from our printed heap) the stickers and get excited about putting them in… but they're already printed where you're supposed to put them. You'd have to do some extra work to remove all of them or at least make them black and white, or blurry, or something.

 

Sounds a bit like the HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE sticker comic book I had as a kid. Genius marketing strategy. Had to buy bubblegum with the stickers inside (that sometimes formed a whole panel, or parts of it) to complete the story. Of course, I wasn't aware of the cynical marketing at the time; I just gobbled it all up (literally).

[BB-8 4,114]

My first association was...

 

[KittBash 296]

This is amazing what a trip! 

I loved these as a kid and this took me right back.

 

Now to comb through and see if there's anything for the chronology project hidden in here

[Davis 3,273]

Coming soon: The John Williams coloring album. 

 

[BB-8 4,114]

 

 

Source: Jim Maxwell auf X: „Happy Birthday to....John Williams https://t.co/zzivg8sIed“ / X

 

Done.

[Mr. Hooper 3,704]

I coloured it wrong. 😓

 

[kingtolkien 17]

It is wonderful. Thank you.

[Bryant Burnette 705]

This is an A+.

[Mr. Hooper 3,704]

4 hours ago, kingtolkien said:

It is wonderful. Thank you.

 

1 hour ago, Bryant Burnette said:

This is an A+.

 

You're very kind. I won't give up on colouring. 

[BB-8 4,114]

Did some eye and mouth surgery...

 

 

[Thor 8,632]

If it's post-eye surgery Williams, he needs be older too. Add wrinkles.

[BB-8 4,114]

[GerateWohl 5,295]

Now you turned him into Yoda.

[BB-8 4,114]

17 hours ago, Davis said:

Coming soon: The John Williams coloring album. 

 

That looks more like George Lucas getting blown away by the opening blast to Star Wars Episode IV.

[BB-8 4,114]

3 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

Now you turned him into Yoda.

[Jurassic Shark 13,641]

15 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

 

 

You're very kind. I won't give up on colouring. 

 

Well, you did give up after the mouth.

[Loert 2,774]

So when JW wrote Yoda's Theme, he was really just writing his theme?

[Claudio 0]

On 11/12/2024 at 5:39 PM, Thor said:

I don't understand what this is. A collection of Williams photos made into stickers?

Exactly that 

[Claudio 0]

On 11/12/2024 at 2:24 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

It's… a sticker album… without stickers?

Each picture is a sticker

[Mr. Hooper 3,704]

I think I'm improving.

 

 

[BB-8 4,114]

2 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

I think I'm improving.

 

 

Tokyo outfit

[Mr. Hooper 3,704]

He has a widow's peak. But don't blame the colorist, he was just following the lines. 

[Williamssage 1]

This is really fun and beautifully done!  I don't wish to appear ungrateful, but perhaps someone who knows Cláudio Leyria could mention that there are two page 20s (page 19 is missing).