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Will Jennings, Oscar-Winning ‘My Heart Will Go On’ Co-Writer, Dies at 80


Will Jennings, award-winning co-writer of "My Heart Will Go On" and other hits by Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Whitney Houston, has died at 80.

Will Jennings, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning co-writer of Titanic ‘s “My Heart Will Go On” and other hit songs by Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Whitney Houston, has died. It was an enormous honor to have worked with such a musical genius,” former J. Geils Band singer Peter Wolf, who collaborated with Jennings, wrote on X(formerly Twitter) Saturday. Jennings won best original song at the Academy Awards in 1983 for co-writing An Officer and a Gentleman ‘s “Up Where We Belong” alongside Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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