deaths
May 2, 2021
Marcel Stellman, Belgian record producer and lyricist (born 1925)
Marcel Stellman
Marcel Leopold Stellman was a Belgian born British record producer and lyricist. Among the many artists who recorded Stellman’s songs are Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Charles Aznavour, the Shadows and Tony Bennett. In the UK he is best known as the man who brought the French show Des chiffres et des lettres to the UK as Countdown. His pseudonyms as a lyricist include Gene Martyn and Leo Johns.
May 2
May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 243 days remain until the end of the year.