Rod McKuen(1933-2015)

Rod McKuen was born on 29 April 1933 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Zodiac (2007), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Better Off Dead... (1985). He died on 29 January 2015 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Madonna: Drowned World/Substitute for Love
- background vocals
- Music Video
- 1998
The Unknown War
- additional music
- lyrics
- composer: theme music
- TV Mini Series
- 1978
Forever Young, Forever Free
- lyrics
- 1975
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- songs: music and lyrics by
- 1969
Me, Natalie
- lyrics: songs
- 1969

Official site
- Rod McKuen - A safe place to land
Alternative name
- Dor
Born
- April 29, 1933
- Oakland, California, USA
Died
- January 29, 2015
- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(pneumonia)
Other works
(1950s) Single: Had a hit with Bob McFadden called "The Mummy." McFadden voiced a mummy walking the streets to buy a copy of "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" and scaring everyone. McKuen is a beatnik who isn't scared of him. The record is credited to "Bob McFadden and Dor"--Dor being McKuen.
Publicity listings

Trivia
Although a favorite target of both critics and non-admirers, who have routinely dismissed his verse as not much above the level of greeting-card poetry, he is the most financially successful poet of all-time. At the height of his popularity (roughly 1967-1973), his books, such as "Listen to the Warm," "Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows," and "In Someone's Shadow," regularly appeared on the best-seller lists and sold in the millions, as did his albums, primarily for RCA Victor and Warner Brothers Records.