Snow, 78, died Friday, July 4 at his home in Connecticut, Variety reports. The composer, who enjoyed a long career in TV and film, once recounted how the “X-Files” theme came to be in an interview for the Television Academy Foundation.

The X Files main theme was released as a single in 1996 and charted internationally. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned “The X-Files” theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s, died Friday at his home in Connecticut. He was 78. A 15-time Emmy nominee, he not only scored more than 200 episodes of Chris Carter’s spooky Fox series (and both its big-screen incarnations,