Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Instone, April 21, 1944, England) is an author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career.
In the early 1960s he worked as a song plugger for Essex Publishing, then moved to Pye Records as a record producer. It was here that he had his first major success with The Foundations, when they recorded, "Baby Now That I've Found You", a song he had co-written with John MacLeod, and it topped the UK Singles Chart in 1967.
Further hits came with songs such as Marmalade's "Baby Make it Soon" and "Falling Apart at the Seams"; and The Fifth Dimension's "(Last Night) I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All", which he wrote on his own; and Donna Summer's 1977 single "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)"; as well as many with collaborators, among them Long John Baldry's "Let the Heartaches Begin"; Paper Dolls' "Something Here In My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin’ Me No)" and Pickettywitch's "That Same Old Feeling", also with John MacLeod; The Foundations’ "Build Me Up Buttercup", with Mike D'Abo; Scott Walker’s "The Lights of Cincinnati", The.