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DON BLACK TRIBUTE: Songwriters Hall of Fame.
London had Denmark Street and the West End, while New York had Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building and Broadway - and the fact that only a handful of British writers have made it into the Songwriters Hall of Fame probably says something about the Americans' view of which is the more significant.
Don Black will be the latest to break through when his name is called this Thursday (June 7), alongside those of fellow inductees including singer-songwriter Jackson Browne and Calypso legend Irving Burgie.
Reflecting on what it all means to be inducted into a club of no more than 350 or so - and whose numbers include Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Bacharach & David, Lennon and McCartney and the rest - Black can only conclude that it means a great deal.
"It does, it means a lot," he says. "I think this is the biggie, and the clue is in the title. It is a very select band of people and there are very few British writers in there. If you look at the invitation, you have got names like Johnny Mercer, Sammy Cahn, Hal ...
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