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He suffered a massive heart attack on February 14, 1993. He died in his sleep from heart disease on January 15, 1994, at his home in Agoura Hills, CA.

The Park Street apartment that he owned in London was where Cass Elliot died from a heart attack in July 1974. In September 1978 The Who's drummer Keith Moon died at the same apartment of an overdose of Heminevrin, a prescription drug that he was taking for alcoholism.

When approached by Ringo Starr to star with him in Son of Dracula (1973), Nilsson at first thought the idea had come from his recent "Son of Schmilsson" album, which included some horror-movie motifs; Starr had played drums on some of the songs. Starr hadn't seen the finished album, and knew nothing of it until shown a copy later by then-wife Maureen. Nilsson starred as young Count Downe (the Son of Dracula), while Starr played the aged Merlin the Magician. Both knew the movie wasn't going to be a hit while they were making it, but they enjoyed working together.

In 1971 Nilsson did a cover of the Badfinger song "Without You," which appeared on his "Nilsson Schmilsson" album, with haunting vocals that showed his incredible multiple-octave range. The song went to #1 in the charts, and he won a Grammy for it.

After leaving RCA Records in the late 1970s, his later recorded output was mostly songs for soundtracks (The World's Greatest Lover (1977), Popeye (1980), and the holiday special Ziggy's Gift (1982)), though he did contribute two vocals to a Yoko Ono all-star tribute. At the time of his death in 1994, he had just completed the vocals for a possible comeback album.

His cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'" was chosen to be played over the opening titles and during the first part of Midnight Cowboy (1969). Other songs considered included Nilsson's own "I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City", and Randy Newman's "Cowboy", which he and Nilsson re-recorded later.

Along with composing the soundtrack for Otto Preminger's Skidoo (1968) (he appears briefly as a stoned tower guard and also sings the closing credits), he provided much of the music for The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969).

Harry Nilsson was born on June 15, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Harry Edward Nilsson III. He was married to Una Mary O'Keeffe, Diane Clatworthy and Sandra Lee McTaggart.