During his ’70s and ’80s heyday, Barry Manilow divided listeners into those who loved his tuneful sentimentality and those who wrote it off as schmaltz or insert a less-polite word here. In the end, Manilow had the last laugh. The singer-songwriter moved 85 million albums worldwide and racked up nearly 30 Top 10 hits, including “I Write the Songs,” “Looks Like We Made It” and “Copacabana,” all of which — for better or worse — retain their earworm qualities to this day. Oh yeah, the guy also bagged a Grammy, Emmy and a Tony, and he was also nominated for an Oscar.
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