"My mother always wanted me to be a doctor," Barry Manilow quipped on stage Tuesday (June 3) night at Detroit's Little Caesars Arena. "She would be so proud!" Manilow indeed became a doctor during ...

Barry Manilow recalled how he initially didn't think one of his most iconic songs would be a hit. During an interview with NBC News, the 80-year-old singer explained that he "never" knows when a ...

Barry Manilow's rise to fame. Born on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, Barry Manilow began his musical career in 1964 when a CBS director asked him to arrange some songs for a musical ...

Manilow crafted a new original score for the musical, with Sussman helming the book and lyrics. Barry Manilow, left, smiles in the studio in 1970. In 1971, Manilow began working with Bette Midler ...

Manilow and Sussman, who are both Jewish, embraced the flexibility of the form. Sussman wrote the book and the lyrics. He joked that his first draft, completed in the mid-1990s, ran about 700 ...

Barry Manilow is woven into my music collection because he is a cornerstone of the late-20th-century American soundtrack. ... his lyrics are not going to be pondered. (He is, however, ...

Singer-songwriter and recent octagenarian, Barry Manilow brought his final tour to Cleveland and gave local fans a fun and comfortable show filled with hits and jokes.

The pop music legend (and recent Ph.D.) is currently in the midst of his The Last Concerts series. By Gary Graff “My mother always wanted me to be a doctor,” Barry Manilow quipped on stage ...

Barry Manilow on His Farewell Concerts (‘It Is Goodbye’) & Why Today’s Lyrics Sound Like a ‘Run-On Sentence’ Gary Graff Wed, June 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM UTC ...