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Cynthia Weil
American songwriter
1940 – 2023aged 82
Working from the Brill Building alongside her husband and songwriting partner Barry Mann, Weil helped write the sound of 1960s rock and roll alongside contemporaries like Carole King and Burt Bacharach. She and Mann were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, later receiving the Songwriters Hall of Fame's top honor, the Johnny Mercer Award, in 2011.