Believe It" (co-written with Jerry Ragavoy) and "Sorry She's Mine", which also appeared on the Small Faces' 1966 debut album, were both Lynch works. Lynch took part in the A Song for Europe contest in 1962 with the song "There's Never Been A Girl", but failed to win through to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. Lynch had more success in 1978, as a songwriter and producer. That year, his song "Don't Bother to Knock", written for the group Midnight, placed second in the contest. The same year he wrote '"Love Crazy", the theme used for Carry On Emmannuelle, and "You Can't Fight It", the vocal version of the theme to the John Carpenter film Assault on Precinct 13. In the mid-1960s he owned a record shop, the Kenny Lynch Record Centre in Walker's Court, Soho. Lynch oversaw the production for Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard's comedy version of "You're the One That I Want", which reached 22 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1978. In the early 1980s, Lynch formed a songwriting partnership with former tennis player Buster Mottram, a long-time white nationalist political activist. Lynch appeared on television programmes including Celebrity Squares, Mooncat & Co., Room at the Bottom, Bullseye and Curry and Chips. He also appeared on Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Till Death Us Do Part and Treasure Hunt. Lynch completed the London Marathon in 1982, played in several charity football matches and took part in Michael Parkinson's 'Celebrity Cricket' fundraisers. In 2018, Lynch had a concert tour with Jimmy Tarbuck and Anita Harris, as well as appearing in ITV's Last Laugh in Vegas. Personal life and death He had two daughters, Amy Lynch and Bobby Lynch. Lynch died in the early hours of 18 December 2019, aged 81. He had been suffering from cancer. Discography Chart singles Filmography See also Popcorn (music style) References External links as Kenny Lynch Music 1938 births 2019 deaths English male singer-songwriters Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Stepney English male television actors Black British male actors English male film actors English people of Jamaican descent English people of Barbadian descent English record producers Royal Army Service Corps soldiers EMI Records artists 20th-century British Army personnel 20th-century Black British male singers