{"id":13577,"date":"2021-10-19T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=13577"},"modified":"2021-10-19T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:30:49","slug":"composer-and-lyricist-leslie-bricusse-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=13577","title":{"rendered":"Composer and Lyricist Leslie Bricusse Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1394\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams.jpg 1394w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams-560x310.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams-260x144.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bricussewilliams-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1394px) 100vw, 1394px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLeslie Bricusse, Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter whose songs for Broadway and Hollywood include \u201cWhat Kind of Fool Am I?\u201d and \u201cPure Imagination,\u201d died Tuesday in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>Bricusse wrote the lyrics for James Bond theme songs \u201cGoldfinger\u201d and \u201cYou Only Live Twice,\u201d as well as songs for movies including <em>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> (including \u201cThe Candy Man\u201d), <em>Scrooge<\/em>, <em>Hook<\/em>, <em>Doctor Dolittle<\/em> and <em>Superman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/music\/news\/leslie-bricusse-dead-willy-wonka-goldfinger-1235092734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full obituary at Variety<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Bricusse collaborated with John Williams on the scores for <em>A Guide for the Married Man<\/em>, <em>Goodbye, Mr. Chips<\/em>, <em>Superman<\/em>, <em>Home Alone<\/em>, <em>Hook<\/em> and <em>Home Alone 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/34198-rest-in-peace-leslie-bricusse-1931-2021\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Bricusse, Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter whose songs for Broadway and Hollywood include \u201cWhat Kind of Fool Am I?\u201d and \u201cPure Imagination,\u201d died Tuesday in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. He was 90. Bricusse wrote the lyrics for James Bond theme songs \u201cGoldfinger\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=13577\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13581,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions\/13581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}