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Don Black with his son Grant and Dame Maureen Lipman

Blog | By Amelia Milne | Nov 23, 2023

(Neil Spence photography)
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Don Black, the famous lyricist, was crowned Oldie Man with the Golden Pen after his lifetime of work, with recent notoriety from Sunset Boulevard.


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