Hard to imagine a better life. He wrote great songs for decades, songs that have become icons, worked with a great lyricist in Hal David and a great musician who first gave breath to most of his greatest hits, Dionne Warwick.
He was also married to Angie Dickinson, one of the hottest looking actresses of the 1960’s who still looked great in the 1970’s in Police Woman as Sgt “Pepper” Anderson.
I first became aware of his music as a kid when my sister, departing on her Big OE, left me her record player and a bunch of vinyl albums, among which was Burt Bacharach’s Greatest Hits.
There was, and remains, something incredibly catchy about his swirling, orchestral melodies, which sound great just as instrumentals, the true sign of a song’s class. The next song being an example of that, with the old NZBC using a version by a…
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