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Les Reed

United Kingdom • 1935-07-24 – 2019-04-15

Les Reed is credited on 9,756 releases across 2,394 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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9,756

Pressings credited

2,394

Albums

8

Decades active

220

In collections

Biography

Leslie David Reed (24 July 1935 – 15 April 2019) was an English songwriter, arranger, musician and light-orchestra leader. His major songwriting partners were Gordon Mills, Barry Mason, and Geoff Stephens, although he wrote songs with many others such as Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook, Peter Callander, and Johnny Worth. Reed co-wrote around sixty charting songs, and is best known for "It's Not Unusual", "Delilah", "The Last Waltz", "Kiss Me Goodbye," "There's a Kind of Hush," and "Marching On Together". His songs gained a number of Gold discs and Ivor Novello Awards. AllMusic noted that "In the mid-1960s, it was unusual for a British singles chart not to list a Les Reed song". He won the British Academy Gold Badge of Merit in 1982.

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Credited work

9,756 releases · 2,394 albums · active 1959–2026

  • Performance · 12,135
  • Other credits · 1,621
  • Production · 283
  • Engineering · 8

Studios: Hansa Tonstudios · Flamingo Las Vegas · Hammersmith Odeon · Wessex Sound Studios

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