Live fill-ins notwithstanding, 10 men have fronted Black Sabbath since their 1968 founding, in stints of wildly varying ...

Don Black says he's part of a disappearing species - people whose job is writing the lyrics for songs. But he's written with - and for - a huge chunk of the entertainment world from Michael ...

WHEN Don Black fell ill with Covid last year the legendary lyricist had no idea quite how poorly he was. In fact, at one stage his sons, Clive and Grant, feared they might lose their famous father.

Don Black has written 17 shows including The Little Prince and the Aviator (Lyricist), Billy (Lyricist), Bar Mitzvah Boy (Lyricist), Song and Dance (Lyricist), Merlin (Lyricist), Dear Anyone ...

Lyricist Don Black talks to Billboard.biz about his 50-year career as he prepares to be honored with the icon award at the BMI's London Awards ceremony.

Don Black: I can’t read music but I’ve written five James Bond songs WHEN strangers ask Don Black what he does for a living and he says he’s a songwriter, he then gets the inevitable “Ooh ...

British songwriter Don Black, known for tracks such as Born Free, Diamonds Are Forever and Michael Jackson's Ben, is to be honoured by the US music industry.

CNN anchor Don Lemon serenaded the network’s audience on Friday with a rendition of “Lift Every Voice,” known widely as the Black national anthem. During a taped interview with actor and ...

“Don’t blame the stars for what we can fix with our hands” goes the song’s easy chorus. The Black Swans “Don’t Blame the Stars” from Jake Housh on Vimeo . ← Previous Article ...

The U.S. performing rights organization stages its London awards ceremony on Oct. 5. By Andre Paine British songwriter Don Black will be honored as a BMI Icon next month. The lyricist’s long ...

Don Covay, whose songs became hits for the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin, has died at age 76. ... Their single, “Black Woman,” bowed at Number 43 on the R&B chart.

Don Black at a Hollywood party with, Petula Clark (L), Michael Jackson, Sophia Loren. Don Black says he's part of a disappearing species - people whose job is writing the lyrics for songs.