Question: Who was the song writer who wrote "I Pretend" that was born in Stepney?

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Belinda Meuldijk: Belinda Meuldijk (born 7 January 1955) is a Dutch actress, writer, and activist.  She has performed in Dutch television shows and movies, and is also a song writer.  She first performed at age six in the "Pipo de Clown" television show, conceived by her father, Wim Meuldijk; later, she provided the impetus for the 2003 movie "Pipo en de p-p-Parelridder" and produced and wrote the songs for the 2009 musical "Pipo en de Gestolen Stem".

Rapperiya Baalam: Ashok Manda Bishnoi, better known by his stage name Rapperiya Baalam, is a Jaipur, Rajasthan based Rapper, Song writer, Music Composer and Producer.  He Rose to fame in 2014 with his song “Mharo Rajasthan”, a Folk hip hop fusion song which become one of the most popular song in Rajasthan and gained amazing popularity among the youth, the Song co-written by Kunaal Vermaa Featuring Indian Idol Fame Folk Singer Swaroop Khan.  His other hits are “Hariyala Banna”, “Jaipur Anthem”,“Des Padharo Sa”, “Dil Mere”.  He along with lyrics writer kunaal Vermaa has worked with bollywood playback singer Ravindra Upadhyay for song “Des Padharo Sa”,and with musician Mohit Gaur for Song “phir mujhe dil se pukaar tu”.  Better known for his experiments in rajasthani folk music Rapperiya Baalam and his team came up with Hariyala Banna in 2016, the song earned 3 million hits in three months and become one of the most popular folk fusion song in regional category.  Hariyala Banna sung by Bollywood playback Singer Ravindra Upadhyay and Kamal Choudhary.

Daisy Fisher: Daisy Fisher, born Daisy Gertrude Fisher; (1888–1967) was an English novelist and playwright.  She was the writer of several romantic novels, a lyricist, scriptwriter, actress and singer.  In the 1920s she wrote the lyrics for some of Eric Coates' compositions.  In 1926 she published her first book "Lavender Ladies A Comedy in Three Acts" followed by more in the 1930s.  Fisher authored some plays with the song writer Harold Simpson, Ronald Jeans and Clifford Seyler.  She was the wife of Herbert Mason the film director and producer who previously acted on stage (including several productions at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre).  After the Second World War they worked together on some plays.

Irving Martin: Irving Martin is a record producer and song writer.  He wrote the song for Guy Darrell called "Ive been Hurt".  He was for a period of time an A&R man for CBS Records and Fontana and Decca Records.  He also produced early recordings by the group Slade.  He produced the following singles, "Hung On You" / "Prove It" by Johnny Devlin in 1965 plus three others for him.  Others were "Come Back Baby Come Back" / "Since My Baby Said Goodbye" by Romeo Z in 1967 and four singles for The Californians including "Sad Old Songs" / "Weep No More".  Other groups he produced recordings for were Finders Keepers, Sight And Sound, and The Royalty.

Des O'Connor: O'Connor was born in Stepney, East London to Maude ("née" Bassett) and Harry O'Connor.  His mother was Jewish and his father was from Ireland.  Des claims to be the only O'Connor who ever had a Bar Mitzvah.  He had a brother, William O'Connor, and has a sister, Patricia, who is one year his junior.  He was evacuated to Northampton during the Second World War and was briefly a professional footballer with Northampton Town.

Julie Talen: Julie Talen is a writer and experimental filmmaker best known for her work with multi-channel narrative.  Her directorial debut, the digital feature, "Pretend", premiered at the Lincoln Center’s New York Video Festival in 2003.  The film uses an array of multiple frames and complex graphics to tell the story of a troubled family living in upstate New York.  "The collage of images evokes the memories, fantasies and fears of the characters, bridging the distance between the objective reality of what the camera sees and the inner worlds that are ordinarily left to actors to convey,’’ wrote A.O. Scott of "The New York Times", who also called "Pretend" a “harrowing, dazzling feature.”  In "Sixty Cameras Against the War" (2004), Talen unearthed unexpected synchronicity among random digital videos taken in a massive but little-seen anti-war rally held in New York City on Feb 15, 2003, just days before the invasion of Iraq.  The film was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art among other locations.

I Pretend: "I Pretend" is a song written by Barry Mason and Les Reed.  Des O'Connor's recording of this track became a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart in July 1968, and a number-one hit in Ireland the same month.

Thomas Scott Cadden: Thomas Scott Cadden (December 2, 1923 – November 2, 2007) was a pioneering television commercial producer, director, writer, and song writer during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.  He is best known for composing the famous Mr. Clean advertising jingle written in 1957 for use with the product's introduction in 1958.  He produced, directed and wrote the Mr. Clean commercials until the 1970s.  The Mr. Clean jingle is still used today in a more contemporary arrangement.

Henry Carey (writer): Henry Carey (c. 26 August 1687 – 5 October 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer.  He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot.  Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death.  Because he worked in anonymity, selling his own compositions to others to pass off as their own, contemporary scholarship can only be certain of some of his poetry, and a great deal of the music he composed was written for theatrical incidental music.  However, under his own name and hand, he was a prolific song writer and balladeer, and he wrote the lyrics for almost all of these songs.  Further, he wrote numerous operas and plays.  His life is illustrative of the professional author in the early 18th century.  Without inheritance or title or governmental position, he wrote for all of the remunerative venues, and yet he also kept his own political point of view and was able to score significant points against the ministry of the day.  Further, he was one of the leading lights of the new "Patriotic" movement in drama.

Jimmy Newquist: James P. Newquist (born May 10, 1970) is the American primary song writer, guitarist, and lead singer for the alternative rock band Caroline's Spine.  Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, he is one of eight children.  Newquist started song writing at an early age and moved to Los Angeles, California to further his music career.  In 1993, he formed Caroline's Spine with college friend Mark Haugh - the band's name being a reference to a character in a story Newquist wrote about a comatose girl whose doctor nonchalantly inquires, "How's Caroline's spine today?"

Supporting paragraphs: I Pretend Des O'Connor
Answer: Des O'Connor