Glen Ballard is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year, and was ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
12 Facts About Glen Ballard
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Glen Ballard is well known for his collaborations with composer Alan Silvestri.
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Glen Ballard was involved in the recording and writing of Michael Jackson's albums Thriller, Bad and Dangerous.
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Glen Ballard won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for "Believe".
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In 2011, Ballard founded his own production company known as Augury, focused on developing music-driven projects in film, television, and theater.
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Glen Ballard was involved in the development of the eight-part TV series The Eddy, centering around a jazz club in Paris, which aired on Netflix in May 2020.
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Glen Ballard wrote the screenplay for Clubland, a music-driven film about an aspiring musician in Los Angeles.
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Glen Ballard has written songs in half a dozen films, including The Slugger's Wife, Navy Seals, The Polar Express, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
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Glen Ballard was involved in the development of the TV series The Eddy, broadcast by Netflix in May 2020.
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Glen Ballard co-wrote the music for the series and served as an executive producer.
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Glen Ballard wrote new songs with Alan Silvestri for the 2022 live-action film adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio.
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In 2019, a stage musical based on the music from Jagged Little Pill opened on broadway following a successful limited engagement in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with Glen Ballard having provided much of the lyrics.