R.I.P. Leslie Bricusse, songwriter behind "Goldfinger" and "Pure Imagination"
The Oscar and Grammy-winning lyricist, who also wrote "Talk To The Animals," was 90.
Award-winning songwriter Leslie Bricusse, a man with a long show business career that includes working on the unforgettable soundtracks of Goldfinger and Willy & The Chocolate Factory, has died. That’s according to Variety, which says the news was confirmed by social media posts this morning from Joan Collins (a longtime friend of Bricusse’s) and his son, Adam. A cause of death has not been released. Bricusse was 90.
Bricusse was born in 1931 and studied at Cambridge, eventually becoming the president of the school’s famous Footlights acting club and founding its Musical Comedy Club. He also wrote his first two musical while in school, Out Of The Blue and Lady At The Wheel, with Variety noting that they were both performed in London’s West End in the ‘50s.
