Don Black Interview - The 2010 BMI London Awards

Don Black, recipient of the BMI Icon Award, interviewed at the 2010 BMI London Awards.

About BMI
Celebrating 75 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in more than 10.5 million musical works created and owned by more than 700,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year.

[hannebjrre]

This person is the most lovely person - and he writes beautiful lyrics. Love him.

[jrcoggins]

Don Black and Mark London's "To Sir with Love"... EPIC!

[madeinliverpool]

Great songwriter, looks a bit like George Harrison.