Will Jennings, an Oscar winner for “My Heart Will Go On” and “Up Where We Belong” and one of the best known lyricists in the contemporary songwriting community, has died, his longtime ...

Will Jennings, Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote Celine Dion’s "My Heart Will Go On" and Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven," has died at the age of 80.

In the early 1990s, Jennings collaborated with Eric Clapton to write “Tears in Heaven,” from the 1991 film, Rush. The song was nominated for a Globe and won song of the year at the Grammys.