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Marvin Hamlisch

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Marvin Hamlisch was born in 1944 in Manhattan. As early as 1951 he was admitted to the pre-college division of the Juilliard School. Later he studied at Queens College. At the Academy Awards ceremony of 1974 he won three Oscars. Two were for The Way We Were (1973): for the score and for the title song. The third was for The Sting (1973), for which he adapted ragtimes by Scott Joplin, such as The Entertainer. For the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) he co-wrote the song Nobody Does It Better. Sophie's Choice (1982) followed later. On Broadway he wrote A Chorus Line (1975), which received a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize. He won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. He died in 2012.

Listening

Listening tip. In The Sting, listen to the ragtime piano with its walking left hand and shifted accents in the melody, and compare that with the disco rhythms in the Bond music.

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Categories: ArtistsNew HollywoodPop song, rock and compilation scoreFilmmusicalBond and spy sound