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Burt Bacharach’s Memoir Delves into the Pain of Daughter’s Suicide
Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional – not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter.
“It was very tough because I had to revisit what that period was and go deeper into it,” he said of his daughter Nikki’s premature birth, years of emotional issues, and eventual suicide at the age of 40.
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The 84-year-old award-winning music composer of such classics as “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” the Oscar-winning “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” and The Carpenters’ “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” understood that baring his deep, dark secrets was essential to his recently released autobiography, “Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life a
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A Conversation with Burt Bacharach
Mike Ragogna: Burt, the title of your new Blu-ray is A Life In Song. That may sound like a magnanimous title, but after watching the program, it seems appropriate because of the impact you've had on music and culture.
Burt Bacharach: I guess so. I think it's fine, I think it's a good title. For me, you don't plan something like that. You don't plan that by writing this way for a certain amount of time or writing this kind of record that it's going to live forever.
MR: Many generations and thousands of people have recorded your music. As you've heard your songs evolve through the years, what are your thoughts about what's happened to them?
BB: There's a certain astonishment at the durability and the duration. Again, something that can't be planned. It's a question that I'm asked: "How do you write something and then forty years later, people are still playing it or still care about it?" Does that mean it will go on forever f
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Burt Bacharach, the essence of pop music success, dies at 94
LOS ANGELES — At the Brill Building, the legendary songwriters’ mecca on Broadway in New York City, composer Burt Bacharach first teamed with lyricist Hal David in 1956. Over the next decade, the two helped define the broad reaches of popular music with a run of hit songs that poured from the radio, added depth and emotion to films and evoked memories with listeners.
Through their collaboration, Bacharach emerged as a commanding figure in popular music as a composer, arranger and record producer whose musically sophisticated songs had cross-generational appeal.
A multiple Grammy and Oscar winner, Bacharach died of natural causes Wednesday at home in Los Angeles with his family by his side, his publicist Tina Brausam confirmed to The Times on Thursday. He was 94.
“Burt Bacharach. The very name is a synonym for pop-music success in the 1960s,” wrote Leonard Feather, The Times’ former jazz critic.
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