Americký zpěvák, skladatel a pianista, původem z N.Y.C. (nar. 1946), vl. jm. Barry Alan Pinkus. V 60. letech pracuje u CBS, píše m.j. hudbu k muzikálu The Drunkard. Na konci 60. let pracoval v televizní Ed Sullivan Show. V letech 1970 - 71 píše...

Píseň: Slept Through The End Of The World

Interpret:
Barry Manilow
Album:
15 Minutes
I see a ceiling
Four walls
Guess you all went away
An hour ago we were laughing
Lovers and friends
Maybe that was yesterday


So what’s the deal?
Did I miss something real?
When I slept through the end of the world


Nobody answers at all
I call
And there’s nobody there
How long since I’ve lifted my head now
Crawled out of bed
How long since anyone cared?


So now I lose?
Lie alone in the blues?
Cause I slept through the end of the world…


Losing is a story I remember
Alone is a feeling that I know
Been awhile since losing
Shook me
Took me down so low
Yes it has…


How could this ride be all over?
Four walls are all I see
I’m tellin’ the shadows and echoes
Should’a told you
But I was wrapped up in me


So here I wait
Getting’ used to too late
Cause I slept through the end of the world…