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The combination of roles — singer, songwriter, screenwriter — points to a sustained engagement with storytelling in more than one form, whether that story was carried by lyric and melody or by dramatic structure and dialogue.\n\nGold died in New York City on February 14, 2021, three days after his forty-seventh birthday, in the same city that had claimed him from birth. 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