Burt Bacharach: Songwriter Extraordinaire, Has Died Age 94
Burt Bacharach, one of pop music’s greatest composers, has died at the age of 94. Together with lyricist Hal David, he wrote some of the best loved songs of the 1960s.
Burt Bacharach, one of pop music’s greatest composers, has died at the age of 94. Together with lyricist Hal David, he wrote some of the best loved songs of the 1960s.
I was born too late to see Irving Berlin or Cole Porter or Duke Ellington or George Gershwin perform their own songs, but last night I was fortunate enough to witness another of the great American composers play and sing his own songs. And if you don’t believe Burt Bacharach’s name belongs alongside those […]