Meet the songwriting behind hits from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Tangled, Aladdin and many more ...

You wouldn’t clock Alan Menken on the street. The composer – spiky grey hair, crinkled forehead, encouraging grin – is altogether unassuming. To see his oeuvre, though, is to realise this 75-year-old ...

In a new PEOPLE video, legendary composer Alan Menken breaks down the stories behind his most beloved Disney animated songs, ...

With over 50 years in the business and Disney blockbusters like ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Pocahontas,’ the composer turned the Disney musical into a global institution and ...

Menken scored The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas and many other Disney classics. He recently wrote three new songs for the live action... Composer Alan Menken On His Disney Tunes: 'I Prefer Them ...

Alan Menken is a true romantic. Just ask him how he met his wife of 52 years, Janis. “This dancer walks into the room, and I knew immediately who she was, because I dreamt her,” he says, beaming from ...

It's difficult to overstate Alan Menken's legacy. If you're a twenty-something he wrote the soundtrack to your childhood. If you've ever seen The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, ...

Alan Menken left an indelible mark as a composer for many of the most popular Disney movies of the 1990s. Menken revolutionized Disney songwriting, blending Broadway-style compositions with heartfelt ...

Alan Menken is the Disney Legend who’s won 8 Oscars, 7 Golden Globes, 11 Grammys, and 1 Tony. He is renowned as a composer of Disney films such as “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, “The Hunchback of ...