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"You might not recognize Alan Silvestri in a crowd — he's the tall and lean older gentleman with a distinguished-looking mass of salt-and-pepper hair, FYI. But that's fine by him. He's iconic because he values sound over sight.

For more than four decades, the New York-born, Berklee College of Music grad has provided the music for some of the biggest movies of all time. Go ahead and hum a few bars of the crescendo from Back to the Future when Marty McFly gears up the DeLorean to 88.8 miles per hour. That was Silvestri. Now think of the feather floating in the air to the gentle orchestrations at the start of Forrest Gump. That was Silvestri too. He's also responsible for composing the music for highly watchable modern classics such as Cast Away, Ready Player One, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Polar Express, The Abyss, The Parent Trap and even that blaring bassline in '70s TV drama CHiPs........"

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