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Awards
BMI to make Don Black an icon
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 3 September 2010
US collecting society BMI will celebrate songwriter Don Black at their European awards event, which takes place in London next month. Black will be declared a BMI Icon at the event, an honour previously given to the likes of Donovan, Van Morrison, the Bee Gees, James Brown and Willie Nelson.
Black is best known for penning songs for film soundtracks, and his biggest hits come from the movies, even if some of those songs are now more famous than the films they accompany, in particular Michael Jackson’s ‘Ben’. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of James Bond theme songs, including ‘Thunderball’, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’, ‘Surrender’ (from ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’) and ‘The World is Not Enough’.
London-based Black is a member of PRS For Music, but represented in the US by BMI. The awards take place on 5 Oct at London’s Dorchester Hotel.
