At one point the family used old fast-food marketing slides to ask a bold question: Is it possible to compose a memorable song from lyrics like "We need more advertising to tell our story and to keep hamburgers before our customers"?
By then, he had composed the highly memorable, effective, self-explanatory "Motörhead" as the B-side to "Kings Of Speed", the last Hawkwind single he appeared on, and resurrected the title for his new group when his original choice, Bastard, was considered unlikely to get too many mentions on the radio.
He also wrote well and composed a number of memorable phrases.
Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos.
During this memorable summer, Shelley composed the poems "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc," and Mary began her novel Frankenstein.
Desafinado (see the clip above) was to be Jazz Samba's most iconic tune, but the album – almost all of which was composed by Brazilians – glowed with memorable material, including Jobim's and Newton Mendonça's Samba de Una Nota So (One Note Samba), the shimmering Bahia, and the wistful Samba Triste.
These and scores of equally memorable songs were composed by songwriters clustered in the Brill Building (named after the men's haberdashery that originally occupied its ground floor at 1619 Broadway at 48th Street) and nearby addresses, most notably 1650 Broadway, in the heart of New York's popular music publishing industry.
The two most memorable performances were of works composed after Shure's death.
And she stayed composed as he gave one of the most memorable of thank-you's after his loss.
"The Book of My Life," a fireside meditation on memory and approaching death, set amid swirling sitars, is as deep and memorable a song as any Sting has composed.
