When director James Gunn, steward of the high-flying new Superman reboot, was recently asked to list his favourite comic book movies, he singled out Richard Donner’s beautifully brash 1978 take on the Man of Steel – the film generally credited with firing the starter pistol for the modern cinematic superhero era.

His latest album is his seventh. He became the youngest solo artist to have 100 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 list in 2021, according to billboard, and last year he sold the rights to all six of his previous albums to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for $200 million, according to Al-Jazeera .