Songwriter wrote No 1 hits for Whitney Houston and Barry Manilow, as well as iconic ballads such as Up Where We Belong and Tears in Heaven
Will Jennings, the Oscar-winning US lyricist behind hit songs such as My Heart Will Go On, Tears in Heaven and Up Where We Belong, has died aged 80. His agent said Jennings died at home in Tyler, Texas, and did not give a cause of death.
A sustained collaboration with Steve Winwood produced the psychedelic soft rock opus Arc of a Diver in 1980, followed by the hit single Valerie and Winwood’s most successful album Back in the High Life, including hits such as the Grammy-nominated Higher Love. That song was later covered by, for whom Jennings wrote a major hit: Didn’t We Almost Have It All, a US chart-topper in 1987.
Jennings had already got set up in Hollywood, earning an Academy Award nomination for the Crawford-sung People Alone, the theme from 1980 drama The Competition. In 1982 he wrote Up Where We Belong, performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for An Officer and a Gentleman – the song topped the US charts, earned Oscar and Bafta awards, and became a defining ballad of that decade.
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