Composer;

Born: June 2, 1944; Died: August 6, 2012.

Marvin Hamlisch, who has died aged 68 after a brief illness, was the award-winning composer and arranger of compulsively memorable tunes that the world was unable to stop humming – from the mournful The Way We Were to the jaunty reworking of Scott Joplin in The Sting.

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