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Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), was an American composer, director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a prolific writer of advertising jingles and wrote the hit songs " My Ship Is Comin' In ", " If Ever I See You Again ", and " You Light Up My Life ", the last for the hit film of the same name that he also ...
May 24, 2011 · May 23, 2011. Before his life had tumbled into scandal and ended over the weekend in suicide at the age of 73, Joseph Brooks had carved out a glittering, idiosyncratic career as author of some...
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May 23, 2011 · There came a point when Joseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning songwriter, apparently decided that life was no longer worth living; his body was discovered on Sunday, with ample evidence of a...
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May 27, 2011 · Published on May 27, 2011 04:00AM EDT. Joseph Brooks, the songwriter behind Debby Boone’s platinum hit ”You Light Up My Life,” was discovered dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan home...
Dec 2, 2014 · GRAMMY-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks committed suicide May 22 in New York. He was 73. He was 73. Brooks composed the music for the 1977 film You Light Up My Life , and the title track garnered him a GRAMMY for Song Of The Year at the 20th Annual GRAMMY Awards, as well as two additional nominations for Record Of The Year and Best Original ...
May 24, 2011 · By COLLEEN LONG. Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial for rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan...
