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Lionel Bart

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Also known as Lionel Begleiter

British writer and composer of pop music and musicals

Person · Open Library

Works
16

Top works

  • אוליבר טוויסט
  • Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
  • Oliver
  • Oliver
  • Oliver!

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Listeners
10,417
Total plays
63,137

Tags

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Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney. His father worked as a tailor in a garden shed in London E1. The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire. Lionel later changed his name to Bart derived from the name of the silk screen printing firm he and John Gorman[1] created ("G & B Arts", for Gorman and Begleiter) after he had completed his National Service with the Ro

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Quotes

  • You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two
  • When Your Number's Up You Go

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lionel
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Stepney
Place of death
Hammersmith
Occupation
songwriter
Languages spoken
English language
Record label
Deram
Military branch
Royal Air Force
Image
Lionel Bart Allan Warren.jpg
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Commons category
Lionel Bart
date of birth
1930-08-01
date of death
1999-04-03
cause of death
liver cancer
manner of death
natural causes
start of work period
1952-00-00
pseudonym
Lionel Bart
birth name
Lionel Begleiter
ethnic group
Jewish people
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