Later Career
Kirshner received the 2007 Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Publishing Award. He was a creative consultant for Rockrena, a company founded by Jack Wishna, launching in 2011, to promote new music talent online. He died of heart failure in a Boca Raton, Florida hospital on January 17, 2011, at age 76, survived by his wife of 50 years, Sheila, his son Ricky, daughter Daryn Lewis and five grandchildren.
In April 14, 2012 Don Kirshner was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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