Will Jennings was not a household name with the general public, but he was on the must-call list of many of the world’s most successful recording artists. He wrote the lyrics for some of the best known songs in pop music history.
If nothing else Jennings, who has died aged 80 after a long illness, would have achieved immortality for his contribution to Celine Dion’s magnum opus, My Heart Will Go On. Co-written with James Horner, the song became the standard-bearer for James Cameron’s monstrously successful film Titanic (1997), and topped the charts in more than 25 countries.
