Born in Brooklyn (New York, USA) in 1938, Mort Shuman died in London on November
2, 1991, following liver surgery, after having composed - 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 performe...