Acclaimed songwriter and Academy Award winner Don Black, OBE, on why he is attending the 2023 BMI London Awards. Full story at https://lucire.com/insider/20231003/gary-kemp-p2j-honoured-at-2023-bmi-london-awards/
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00:00 Why is this such a special night and why is it important that we celebrate the songwriters?
00:05 It's pretty obvious, we've got to stick together.
00:09 But I've been coming here maybe the longest, I've been coming here for 30 years more
00:14 because I am an icon here and I'd like to see who's going to be the next one.
00:20 And there's a great friend of mine, Gary Kemp, so I'm looking forward to that.
00:25 This is always such a lovely evening.
00:28 What do you think about Gary getting the Icon Award then?
00:30 I'm delighted and it's nice to see Graham Goldman, he's also an icon.
00:36 What do you think about his musical legacy and everything that he's achieved?
00:40 Well, yeah, he's great. I mean that's why we're here, there's a lot of great people in this room.
00:48 And it's a tough business.
00:52 For someone like me, I've had a lot of hits, but I've written over 2,000 songs.
00:58 So if you ask Gary, he must have written a thousand songs and we know a few of them.
01:04 So it's hard work to get to the icon stage.
01:09 So tell me, what is the secret to writing a good song?
01:12 Keep going, get used to rejection. Don't give up when things go bad.