Oscar-winning composer and lyricist known for his hugely successful songs for Willy Wonka and Doctor DolittleThe songwriter Leslie Bricusse, who has died aged 90, was a quiet man with an unshakeable sense of his own worth, an outlook justly cultivated in the early 1960s when his two stage musicals with Anthony Newley, Stop the World " I Want to Get Off (1961) and The Roar of the Greasepaint " The Smell of the Crowd (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM on October 20, 2021