Marvin Hamlisch gave us the good old numbers that stuck in our lives | Emma Brockes

The award-winning composer produced many cheesy Hollywood numbers, but who among us hasn't belted out one of his tunes?A lot of what Marvin Hamlisch composed over the course of his extraordinary 50-year career fell into a category once described by Andre Previn as "commercial cornball music" – big cheesy Hollywood numbers, including the Carly Simon James Bond theme Nobody Does It Better and the title song to the 1973 tearjerker The Way We Were. His scores were sometimes sentimental, often aspi...

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