Hal Willner Dies Of COVID-19: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketch Music Producer, Tribute Album Compiler Was 64
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deadline.comBy Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Hal Willner, a longtime sketch music producer for Saturday Night Live and a music producer and compiler of tribute albums and concerts, has died of complications related to COVID-19, according to multiple reports.
Willner, who joined SNL in 1981, also produced albums for such artists as Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithfull, and Lucinda Williams.
He was a score producer for films including Finding Forrester (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002), and served as a music consultant or supervisor on Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Bewitched (2005) and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), among many other credits. “As unique a person I ever had the fortune to
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