When Paul McCartney indicates that Bert Berns must be elevated in the pantheon of music business executives, it is worth pausing. When Van Morrison, Keith Richards and Solomon Burke join the chorus, ...

Last night (April 8), songwriter Bert Berns was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Ahmet Ertugun Award for Lifetime Achievement. Steven Van Zandt, a longtime fan of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image released by Bert Berns Music shows Bert Berns, left, and Jerry Wexler. (Bert Berns Music via AP) NEW YORK (AP) ...

BANG! The Bert Berns Story, the much-celebrated music documentary tells the story of one of the most impactful and great songwriters of modern times, Bert Berns. Because of his early death, at only 38 ...

Bert Berns spent only 38 years on the planet, but he packed a lot in. He was a musician, a songwriter, a record company owner and producer, and even if you don’t know the name, you know some of the ...

Blues" (Counterpoint pp 406, $25) tells the story of Berns, a man who knew from an early age that because of heart problems related to rheumatic fever he had a short time on earth. From the age of 30, ...

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The name Bert Berns might not ring a bell, but his songs certainly do. As a prolific songwriter and music producer, Berns is the man behind such pop and soul hits as “Twist and Shout,” “Hang On Sloopy ...

“I want to be known,” says the magnetic young actor Zak Resnick, playing the part of songwriter Bert Berns. Bert who? Berns, the subject of this biographical jukebox musical, penned several of the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hits such as "Brown Eyed Girl," "Twist and Shout" and "Hang on Sloopy" made Bert Berns one of his era's most successful songwriters and producers before he died in 1968, yet few ...