September 2016 after "a brief aggressive battle with cancer", as quoted by Jon Platt of Warner/Chappell music publishing. His death would be announced a week later on 5 October 2016, with his private funeral having already taken place. Gilles Peterson, a BBC radio presenter, paid tribute to Temperton on Twitter: "Apart from Lennon and McCartney no one from the UK has written more gold plated songs than Sir Rod Temperton... a huge loss. RIP". Temperton is survived by his wife Kathy. They had homes in Los Angeles, the south of France, Fiji, Switzerland, and Kent in southeast England. Songwriting credits Production credits The Running Scared soundtrack album, 1986 (with Dick Rudolph and Bruce Swedien) "We Belong to Love" by Jeffrey Osborne, from Emotional, 1986 Kiss of Life by Siedah Garrett, 1988 (with Dick Rudolph) Back on the Block by Quincy Jones, 1989 (associate producer) "Givin' In to Love" by Patti Austin, from Carry On, 1991 "You Put a Move on My Heart", "We Were Made for Love", "Two in a Million", and "Love Keeps Coming Back" by Mica Paris, from Whisper a Prayer, 1993 "We Are the Future", from We Are the Future: You Are the Answer, 2004 (with Sunny Levine) Arranging Back on the Block, with Andrae Crouch, Quincy Jones, Quincy Jones III, and Bill Summers; Wee B. Dooinit, with Siedah Garrett, Jones, Mark Kibble, and Ian Prince; Birdland (winner of the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement), with Jerry Hey, Jones, and Prince; Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me), with Hey and Jones; The Secret Garden, with Garrett, Hey, and Jones, from Back on the Block, 1989 You Put a Move on My Heart, with John Clayton; Rock with You, with Jones, Jones III, and Greg Phillinganes; Stomp, with Hey and Jones; Heaven's Girl, with Hey, Jones, and R. Kelly; and Slow Jams, with Clayton, Hey, and Phillinganes, from Q's Jook Joint, 1995 Lovelines and My Body Keeps Changing My Mind, from solo album by Karen Carpenter recorded in 1979-1980, released in 1996. References External links Six Million Steps – Rod Temperton Special radio show from March 2008 Six Million Steps – Rod Temperton Special REMIXED radio show from October 2016 Irreverent website info "The Yorkshire Post" article (2006) https://web.Archive.org/web/20161011152450/https://www.Death-Notices.co.uk/obituaries-celebrities-death/128/Rod-Temperton-Songwriting-Giant-Behind-Thriller-And-Off-The-Wall-Dies 1949 births 2016 deaths English pop pianists English pop singers English songwriters English record producers English rhythm and blues musicians British disco musicians English soul musicians People