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Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan [1] (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), [2] was an American composer, director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a prolific writer of advertising jingles and wrote the hit songs " My Ship Is Comin' In ", " If Ever I See You Again ", and " You Light Up My Life ", the last for the hit film of the same name that ...
May 23, 2011 · There came a point when Joseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning songwriter, apparently decided that life was no longer worth living; his body was discovered on Sunday, with ample evidence of a...
Dec 2, 2014 · He was 73. Brooks composed the music for the 1977 film You Light Up My Life, and the title track garnered him a GRAMMY for Song Of The Year at the 20th Annual GRAMMY Awards, as well as two additional nominations for Record Of The Year and Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special.
May 24, 2011 · An obituary on Tuesday about the songwriter and filmmaker Joseph Brooks misstated Mr. Brooks’s role in the production of the movie “Eddie and the Cruisers.”
May 22, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead Sunday of an...
May 27, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the songwriter behind Debby Boone’s platinum hit ”You Light Up My Life,” was discovered dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan home on May 22. He was 73 years old.
May 24, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial for rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment,...