Don Black

Lyricist/librettist Don Dark could very well be best-known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as for the Wayne Bond theme tunes he co-wrote with composer John Barry: “Thunderball,” “Gemstones Are Forever,” and “Guy Using the Golden Weapon.” Black started his profession in display business like a standup comedian and debuted like a lyricist for the musical Billy, created with Barry. He later on collaborated with Quincy Jones within the 1969 soundtrack The Italian Work, obtained the Dove soundtrack in 1974, and it has since obtained many strike musicals with Andrew Lloyd Webber through the entire 1980s and 1990s, including Inform Me on the Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, and Areas of Love. Furthermore to his work with successful musicals, Dark has created other popular strike tunes, including “Ben,” a U.K. chart-topper for Michael Jackson; “To Sir With Like,” a U.S. number 1 solitary for Lulu; Matt Munro’s “LEAVE”; “I’ll Place You Together Once again” by Sizzling Chocolate; as well as the Olympics theme “Amigos Em virtude de Siempre,” created with Lloyd Webber. Dark offers collaborated with additional leading composers such as for example Henry Mancini, Jule Styne, and Charles Strouse. He offers offered as vice chief executive of the English Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Writers, and may be the receiver of multiple Academy Honor nominations, Tony Honours, and Ivor Novello Honours, in addition to an Oscar along with a Golden World Honor. In 1995, a assortment of his tunes, entitled Songbook, premiered.