Songwriter Allee Willis, famous for her work with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the “Friends” theme and the “Color Purple” Broadway song score, died Tuesday in Los Angel…
, famous for her work with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the “Friends” theme and the “Color Purple” Broadway song score, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at 72. The cause of death was cardiac arrest.
“I, very thankfully, have a few songs that will not go away,” Willis told the New York Times, “but they’re schlepping along 900 others.” Willis was legendary in Los Angeles for her outlandishly retro style sense, in her outfits but especially her home, the pink, legendarily kitchsy 1937 Streamline Moderne L.A. house known as “Willisville.” The home was recently the setting for a photo shoot fordirector, collector of odd artifacts and memorabilia, and a stand-up comedian and performance artist.
“I’m someone that absolutely loves writing very joyful music,” she told Songfacts in 2008. “And with everything else I’ve ever written, [“September” is] still that song that when people found out I’d written that, they just go, ‘Oh my God,’ and then tell me in some form how happy that song makes them every time they hear it. For me, that’s it. … I literally have never been to a wedding, a bar mitzvah, anything, where I have not heard that song play.
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