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Jerry Leiber 1933 - 2011
Leiber and Stoller - who met when they were 17 - wrote for the likes of Elvis Presley, the Drifters, Ben E King and Peggy Lee.
They also helped launch the career of The Coasters by writing and producing the vocal group's biggest hits including 'Yakety Yak', 'Charlie Brown' and 'Along Came Jones'.
In other news, US songwriter Nickolas Ashford, who wrote iconic hits Ain't No Mountain High Enough and I'm Every Woman with wife Valerie Simpson, has died at the age of 70.
The duo met in the early 1960s at White Rock Baptist Church in Harlem, where Valerie played the piano and sang in the church choir.
Ashford and Simpson were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.
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1950s: Both born to Jewish families, Leiber came from Baltimore, Stoller from Long Island, but they met in Los Angeles in 1950, where Stoller was a freshman at Los Angeles City College while Leiber was a senior at Fairfax High. Stoller had graduated from Belmont High School. After school, Stoller played piano and Leiber worked in a record store and, when they met, they found they shared a love of...
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