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Allee Willis
American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector
1947 – 2019aged 72
Co-wrote "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" for Earth, Wind & Fire, songs that helped define disco-era pop, and later wrote the theme song for Friends, "I'll Be There for You." Her compositions sold more than 60 million records, and she won two Grammy Awards, for the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack and for her work on The Color Purple, which was also Tony-nominated. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.