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Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), 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 ...
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...
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.”
Dec 2, 2014 · GRAMMY-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks committed suicide May 22 in New York. 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 ...
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 24, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life," who was awaiting trial on rape charges and was found dead in his apartment, committed suicide, the medical...
Joseph Brooks was originally a writer of jingles who later won an Oscar and Grammy award for his 1977 Debby Boone hit, “You Light Up My Life.” But on Sunday afternoon, his life ended in...
