Born in Brooklyn (New York, USA) in 1936, Mort Shuman died in London on December
2, 1991, following liver surgery, after composing - with or without his writing
partner Doc Pomus - a multitude of rock classics for Dion, The Drifters or Elvis
Presley, then The Hollies,The Small Faces or Janis Joplin. In 1966, he staged
the highly successful musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Living in Paris in
London, introducing English audiences to the Belgian singer's work, before doing
the same on Broadway two years later. In France in the 1970s, the American
enjoyed success as a performer with...