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1. www.npr.org › 2019/12/25 › 791317324Allee Willis, Who Wrote 'Friends' Theme Song, Dies At 72 : NPR

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   Dec 25, 2019 · Songwriter Allee Willis, whose credits include the theme for the show Friends, and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland" and "September ," died Tuesday. She was 72. Willis' long career included ...

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2. www.washingtonpost.com › local › obituariesAllee Willis, who co-wrote Earth, Wind ... - The Washington Post

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   Dec 26, 2019 · Allee Willis, a Grammy Award-winning songwriter who helped compose the catchy theme song for the TV sitcom “Friends,” as well as hits for the Pointer Sisters and Earth, Wind & Fire, and who ...

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4. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › musicAllee Willis, Hall of Fame "September" songwriter, dead at 72 ...

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   Dec 27, 2019 · Allee Willis, Hall of Fame songwriter and beloved L.A. eclectic, dead at 72. Allee Willis in her home studio. Musical collaborators, friends and fans took to social media on Christmas Day to pay ...

5. www.billboard.com › music › music-newsAllee Willis' 10 Most Influential Songs | Billboard

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   • “September,” Earth, Wind & Fire (1978) Willis’ first co-wrote for EWF — with the group’s Maurice White and Al McKay — was also the best song of her career, a joyful three and a half minute party that gets you on your feet from the first skittering guitar notes.
   • “I’ll Be There For You,” The Rembrandts (1994) Willis was part of a team of six, including the Rembrandts’ Danny Wilde, who created this iconic theme for NBC’s Friends, which the band turned into a full-scale song after a Nashville radio station famously looped the TV version into a single-length hit.
   • “What Have I Done to Deserve This? ,” Pet Shop Boys featuring Dusty Springfield (1987) Willis hooked up with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe via a mutual friend in the publishing industry, writing this single about three years before its release, with the duo using the interim to refine the song’s structure and get Springfield on board.
   • “In the Stone,” Earth, Wind & Fire (1979) Though not Willis’ biggest hit for EWF, the brassy “In the Stone” — co-written with Maurice White and David Foster — was a blast-off for the I Am album and for many an EWF concert since.

6. www.nytimes.com › 2018/06/07 › artsA Queen of Kitsch Who Made the Whole World Sing - The New ...

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   Jun 7, 2018 · After college, Ms. Willis began her career at Columbia and Epic Records, writing ads and liner notes, until she cut her first (and only) album, a ’70s singer-songwriter opus called “Childstar.”

7. variety.com › 2019 › musicAllee Willis Dead: Hit Songwriter Was 72 - Variety

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   Dec 25, 2019 · Songwriter Allee Willis, famous for EWF's "September," the theme from "Friends" and the "Color Purple" Broadway song score, has died at 72.

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   What happened to Allee Willis?

   • Songwriter Allee Willis, famous for her work with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the “ Friends ” theme and the “ The Color Purple ” Broadway song score, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 72. The cause of death was cardiac arrest.

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   Where does Allee Willis live?

   • LOS ANGELES — Allee Willis, a raconteuse with an asymmetrical hairstyle (long on one side, short on the other, like the life of man), lives in a light-pink house north of Hollywood with a bowling-ball garden and a heaving collection of kitsch. This is the house that “September” bought.

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   Where did Kate Willis grow up?

   • Willis (pictured above with Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, at a Grammy party in 1982) grew up in Detroit, where, she told the New York Times, she would sit on the lawn of Motown’s headquarters and study what she heard coming through the walls.

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   What was Willis like as a kid?

   • As a kid, Willis would have her parents drive her down to the studios. "And I would sit in the car and pray someone would like, walk in, but once I got my license, I would park the car, sit on the lawn, and you could hear the music coming through the walls," she said in a 2017 interview for the City of Detroit.

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9. www.songhall.org › profile › allee_willisAllee Willis | Songwriters Hall of Fame

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   The following year she launched Allee Willis Marches on Detroit as an ongoing series of events and fundraisers also employing a marching band to support her hometown. In 2017 she premiered The D—a recording and documentary of over 70 singalongs she produced all over Detroit and featuring 5,000 vocalists.