Songwriter Ellie Greenwich Dies of Heart Attack

Rock and Roll songwriter Ellie Greenwich has died. Greenwich, who helped shape pop music in the ‘60s, died of a heart attack Wednesday at a New York hospital, where she was being treated for pneumonia. She was 68.

Greenwich co-write classics such as Be My Baby, Chapel Of Love, River Deep, Mountain High and Maybe I Know. She worked with many artists including the Crystals, the Ronettes and Neil Diamond.

Greenwich was inducted in to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1991. She helped create the Broadway production Leader of the Pack, a show about her life in the music industry, in 1985.

She is survived by her ex-husband Jeff Berry and sister Laura.

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