It was the first time an FA Cup game other than the final had been played at the national stadium, and it was a fitting occasion. When they drawn against Arsenal in the semi-finals, demand for tickets was so high that they had to use Wembley instead of White Hart Lane. Spurs's league form was not exactly impressive in the first half of 1991, but that was largely excused thanks to their wonderful FA Cup run. More Chas and Dave, but this is their final contribution to the musical canon of football songs. The change from that to 'Glory glory Tottenham Hotspur' is, as you can probably guess, quite jarring. Just as the hellish choir and battling brass soundtracks the climactic fight scene between the Sith lord and Obi Wan Kenobi in the 1999 movie, so it provides the aural backdrop as Tottenham take to the field for every home game. While such a choice of entrance music might have been unimaginable not so long ago, the increasingly Hollywood nature of Premier League football in the 21st century means that few see the music as excessive today. While the merits of voluntarily establishing a connection with the movie which started the slow, painful dismantling of George Lucas's legacy as a filmmaker, you cannot deny that Williams's form was as strong as ever when it came to this composition, which became the de facto theme for the movie as a whole. Another surprising piece of music that has become associated with Tottenham is Duel of Fates, the John Williams score used as the theme for super-villain Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
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