Glen Ballard

Basil Glen Ballard Jr.

(1953-05-01) May 1, 1953
Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.

1971–present

Thriller (1982)

Michael Jackson

Break Out (1983)

Pointer Sisters

Patti Austin (1984)

Patti Austin

So Romantic (1984)

Evelyn King

All I Need (1984)

Jack Wagner

Lighting Up the Night (1985)

Jack Wagner

Workin' It Back (1985)

Teddy Pendergrass

- Hot Together (1986)

The Pointer Sisters

Bad (1987)

Michael Jackson

Don't Give Up Your Day Job (1987)

Jack Wagner

Forever Your Girl (1988)

Paula Abdul

Pictures from the Front (1989)

Jon Butcher

Shut Up and Dance (1990)

Paula Abdul

Wilson Phillips (1990)

Wilson Phillips

Curtis Stigers (1991)

Curtis Stigers

Dangerous (1991)

Michael Jackson

Shadows and Light (1992)

Wilson Phillips

Trey Lorenz (1992)

Trey Lorenz

Alone in the Crowd (1993)

Jack Wagner

Lea Salonga (1993)

Lea Salonga

Love Come Down: The Best of Evelyn "Champagne" King (1993)

Evelyn King

Jagged Little Pill (1995)

Alanis Morissette

My Cherie (1995)

Sheena Easton

Naked And Sacred (1995)

Chynna Phillips

Tambu (1995)

Toto

Time Was (1995)

Curtis Stigers

Nine Lives (1997)

Aerosmith

Talk On Corners (1997)

The Corrs

Brendan Lynch (1997)

Brendan Lynch

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

Alanis Morissette

Timing Is Everything (1998)

Block

Chapter I: A New Beginning (1999)

The Moffatts

Lara Fabian (2000)

Lara Fabian

Return of Saturn (2000)

No Doubt

Music From The Motion Picture (2000)

Titan A.E.

Limited Edition (2000)

Judith Owen

Trip to the 13th (2001)

Bliss 66

— "The One" (2001)

Shakira

Everyday (2001)

Dave Matthews Band

Crashed..... (2001)

Atomic (2001)

Lit

— "Forever Might Not Be Long Enough" (2001)

Live

Love, Shelby (2001)

Shelby Lynne

Wildcard (2001)

Terence Trent D'arby

— Wake (2002)

Sheila Nicholls

Stripped (2002) (co-wrote "The Voice Within")

Christina Aguilera

To Whom It May Concern (2003)

Lisa Marie Presley

Anastacia (2004)

Anastacia

Pearl Days (2004)

Elisa

The Best Of Both Worlds (2004)

Van Halen

Fragile System — Atomic Tiger (2004)

— Unreleased album, reworked into One of the Boys (2004 - Album shelved)

Katy Perry

Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005)

Alanis Morissette

Stories of a Stranger (2005)

O.A.R.

- The New World Soundtrack (2005)

Hayley Westenra

Let Love In (2006)

Goo Goo Dolls

Testify (2006)

P.O.D.

Dark Road (2007)

Annie Lennox

Slow Motion Addict (2007)

Carina Round

Inside Out (2007)

Emmy Rossum

Songs of Mass Destruction (2007)

Annie Lennox

Who's Your Momma (2007)

Anouk

A Hero Comes Home (2007)

Idina Menzel

One of the Boys (2008)

Katy Perry

I Stand (2008)

Idina Menzel

Apagorevmeno (2008)

Anna Vissi

Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)

Miley Cyrus

Christmas in Harmony (2010)

Wilson Phillips

In Your Dreams (2011) (produced tracks with David A. Stewart)

Stevie Nicks

It's a Man's World (2012)

Anastacia

Ringo 2012 (2012)

Ringo Starr

TOP 16 — 那不勒斯的黎明 (Dawn in Naples) (2017)

SNH48

Give More Love (2017)

Ringo Starr

Hold On (2019)

B*Witched

He has performed on or produced the following:

Film and television[edit]

Ballard wrote the screenplay for Clubland, a music-driven film about an aspiring musician in Los Angeles. He has written songs in half a dozen films, including The Slugger's Wife, Navy Seals, The Polar Express, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.


Ballard was involved in the development of the TV series The Eddy, broadcast by Netflix in May 2020. Ballard also co-wrote the music for the series and served as an executive producer.[6][7] He wrote new songs with Alan Silvestri for the 2022 live-action film adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio.[8]

Musical theatre[edit]

Ballard co-wrote the music and lyrics for Ghost the Musical with David A. Stewart and Bruce Joel Rubin, which opened in London's West End on July 19, 2011, and opened on Broadway in the spring of 2012.


On January 31, 2014, it was announced that a stage musical of the film Back to the Future was in production.[9] The show, which is being co-written by original writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, premiered in Manchester, on February 20, 2020.[10] Ballard teamed with Alan Silvestri to compose a new score, with the addition of original songs from the film, including "The Power of Love", "Johnny B. Goode" and "Earth Angel".[11]


In 2019, a stage musical based on the music from Jagged Little Pill (and with the same name) opened on broadway following a successful limited engagement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Ballard having provided much of the lyrics. The show ran for a month of previews and 3 months of performances before closing due to COVID-19; it reopened in October 2021 before officially closing only two months later in December. At the rescheduled Tony Awards for 2020, the show garnered 15 nominations in total, though only won two awards, in addition to winning the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. A subsequent Australian production, as well as a US tour followed shortly after, as well as the announcement of a London transfer.

Glen Ballard songbook. Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 2000.  0-7935-5254-0.

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