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Howard Ashman

real name Howard Elliot Ashman

United States · 1950-05-03 – 1991-03-14

Howard Ashman is credited on 1,083 releases across 270 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,083

Credits

270

Albums

5

Decades active

117

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American playwright and lyricist (Baltimore, May 17, 1950 – New York City, March 14, 1991).
He made team with Alan Menken, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the music, after they first collaborated on the off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors (1982). Both arrived to Walt Disney Pictures to bring a new life to company's animated features, achieving huge success with The Little Mermaid (1989). Ashman got deeply involved in the development of two subsequent films, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin (actually he was credited executive producer of Beauty and the Beast), but he died after complications from AIDS before the completion of the first.
He won two Academy Awards (being nominated five more times), two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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1,083 releases · 270 albums · active 1982–2025

  • Performance · 2,209
  • Production · 266
  • Other credits · 43

Studios: Sun Studio, Copenhagen · Abbey Road Studios · Sonet Studios, Stockholm · Meta Sound Studios, Amsterdam

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