American songwriter and producer
Born: 27th June 1944 Kilgore, Texas, USA
Died: 6th September 2024 Tyler, Texas, USA
Award-winning songwriter, active since the mid-1970s. Among his best known lyrics are The Crusaders' Street Life (1979), Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes' Up Where We Belong (1982), Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven (1993) and Céline Dion's My Heart Will Go On (1997).
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.