Lionel Bart
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Lionel Bart (January 1930 – March 3, 1999) was a British writer and composer of pop music and musicals.
He wrote Tommy Steele's "Rock with the Caveman," the first British pop song to break into the American Top 40, and he was the sole producer of the musical Oliver. (1960):.
With Oliver!
He was instrumental in the establishment of the British musical theatre scene in the 1960s, alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, after an age when musicals had dominated the West End.He was best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for Oliver! Andrew Lloyd Webber called him "the father of the modern British musical."
He received the Tony Award for Best Original Score for Oliver in 1963, and the 1968 film version of the musical received a total of six Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Cliff Richard's "Live Doll" and "Do You Mind?" are two of his other compositions. Both Anthony Newley and Andy Williams recorded "Big Time" (a 1961 cover of Jack Jones' "They Can't Believe It"), "Always You And Me" by Russ Conway), and several songs by Tommy Steele ("A Handful of Songs," "Butterfingers" and "Little White Bull") (Recorded by Tom Jones).
He was as popular for his outlandish lifestyle, his celebrity associates, his indulgences, and his parties as well known as for his work by the mid-60s.
Early life
He was born Lionel Begleiter, the youngest of seven living children of Galician Jews, Astute (née Darumstundler), and Morris Begleiter, a master tailor. He grew up in Stepney; his father worked as a tailor in a garden shed. The family had survived the pogroms against Jews in Galicia by Ukrainian cossacks.
He was an excellent painter as a young man. A mentor told Bart's parents that he was a musical genius when he was six years old. His parents gave him an old violin, but he did not apply himself, and the lessons were suspended.
Later life
Bart continued writing songs and themes for film, but "Happy Endings," a song he wrote for a 1989 Abbey National advertisement campaign, featured Bart playing the piano and singing to children, was his only true success in his later years.
In 1986, he was given a special Ivor Novello Award for life achievement. In 1987, he was invited by longtime friend Barry Humphries to attend the premiere of a new version of Blitz! The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain revived Blitz! in London's West End, marking the London blitz's 50th anniversary. He appeared on This Is Your Life in April 1991. Cameron Mackintosh, who owned half of Oliver, revived the musical at the London Palladium in 1994, but in a Bart version with rewrites. Bart received a cut of the royalties from Mackintosh. Bart was romantically linked in the media with singers Judy Garland and Alma Cogan, though he was not gay. His sexual history was known to family and colleagues, but he did not "come out" until a few years before his death.
Bart died of liver cancer at the Hammersmith Hospital in West London on April 3rd. In Kew Gardens, a memorial bench has been named to him.
In 2006 at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, a workshop based on Bart's life and using his songs, It's a Fine Life.