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You might not recognise the name George David Weiss, but you'll definitely know his songs. Here's a clue: "A-wimoweh-a-wimoweh-a-wimoweh..." The 89-year-old writer of many a memorable tune, including both The Lion Sleeps and Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World, passed away in his New Jersey home earlier this week. He served as a bandleader in World War II before going on to author and co-author songs performed by Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Elvis Presley...

The Knife's Dreijer is to create the music for a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. It is to be directed by Andreas Nilsson - the director known for his spooky music videos for The Knife, MGMT and Dreijer's own Fever Ray project. Further details are yet to be confirmed, but Nilsson states that music will be a key element in the play. This isn't the first time she's made music for the stage. The Knife recently provided the score for an opera about the theories of Charles Darwin...