He’s written songs with everyone from Quincy Jones to John Barry – though his musical about premature ejaculation was a flop. ‘Everyone’s the same when they sit at the piano,’ he reveals
For a man who recently suffered from coronavirus and had a lengthy stay in hospital, Don Black sounds surprisingly hale and hearty. He can even find a positive about his brush with Covid-19. The NHS staff were fantastic, he says. Moreover, they found out who he was during his stay – he’d been booked in under his real name, Donald Blackstone – and, when he left the hospital, not only lined up to applaud him, but serenaded him with an impromptu version of Born Free, the Oscar-winning song that Black co-wrote in 1965. “Isn’t that wonderful?” he marvels.
Black’s book The Sanest Guy in the Room is full of anecdotes a bit like that. Somewhere between a...
For a man who recently suffered from coronavirus and had a lengthy stay in hospital, Don Black sounds surprisingly hale and hearty. He can even find a positive about his brush with Covid-19. The NHS staff were fantastic, he says. Moreover, they found out who he was during his stay – he’d been booked in under his real name, Donald Blackstone – and, when he left the hospital, not only lined up to applaud him, but serenaded him with an impromptu version of Born Free, the Oscar-winning song that Black co-wrote in 1965. “Isn’t that wonderful?” he marvels.
Black’s book The Sanest Guy in the Room is full of anecdotes a bit like that. Somewhere between a...
- 7/29/2020
- by Alexis Petridis
- The Guardian - Film News
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