Will Jennings, lyricist whose songs were hits for artists including Celine Dion and Eric Clapton

• Will Jennings, who has died aged 80, was a lyricist who penned the words to some of the most famous film songs of the last few decades, enduring classics such as My Heart Will Go On, sung by Celine Dion for the epic Titanic, Up Where We Belong, performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes on the soundtrack to An Officer and a Gentleman, and Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton’s song about his young son’s death that featured in the film Rush and was the guitarist’s best-selling single in the United Stat