NEW YORK — “I Write the Songs,” “Mandy,” “Weekend in New England” and “Even Now” are just a few of the many hits from Brooklyn native Barry Manilow’s nearly 60-year career in music.
If you ask the award-winning singer-songwriter about his career, he will tell you he was aiming for the bright lights of Broadway, not pop stardom. Same goes for his longtime collaborator, Bruce Sussman.
“I wanted to be part of the Broadway scene, and Bruce and I met, and we were just about to start, and Bruce says Mandy came in the middle of this, and screwed up everything,” said Manilow, who laughed at the notion of the
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