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Will Jennings, Oscar-Winning ‘My Heart Will Go On’ Lyricist, Dead at 80

Will Jennings, Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote Celine Dion’s "My Heart Will Go On" and Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven," has died at the age of 80.

A two-time Record and Song of the Year Grammy winner, Jennings also co-wrote Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven," Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" and An Officer and a Gentleman's "Up Where We Belong" Will Jennings, the two-time Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote Celine Dion ’s “My Heart Will Go On” along with chart-topping hits by Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Whitney Houston, has died at the age of 80. A Songwriter’s Hall of Fame inductee with a half-dozen Number One hits in his catalog, Jennings was a two-time winner of the Academy Awards’ Best Original Song, first for co-writing “Up Where We Belong” — sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Barnes for 1982’s An Officer and a Gentleman — and then for the Titanic smash “My Heart Will Go On,” which he co-wrote with composer James Horner.

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