Legendary American composer Burt Bacharach passed away on Thursday, February 9 at the age of 94. The musician has won the most important awards of the entertainment industry in the United States such as six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award and three Academy Awards.
Bacharach worked for The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, The Stranglers, Barbra Streisand and composed the soundtrack for Royal Casinothe James Bond movie.
“It’s my drug. I go to the keyboard and it makes things feel better. Once I’m on the keyboard I try to solve some problems, that’s the only thing on my mind,” said the 92-year-old musician.
Burt Bacharach was born May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He had at least a hundred chart-topping and popular songs, many of them in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Likewise, musicians from all over the world have covered his songs.
Bad related to the concept of easy to listen (easy listening songs), some of his most famous songs are Alfio (for the 1965 film of the same name), What the world needs now is love, The look of love AND This guy is in love with you.
One of his most popular songs andRaindrops keep falling on my headfrom 1969, also known for its Spanish version of raindrops on me.
A long compositional stop
Burt Bacharach had surprised in 2022, when in June he returned to edit a piece of his own composition, after he hadn’t done it since 2005.
On June 11, 2022, it debuted Bells of Sant’Agostino (Campanas de San Agustín), composed at the time of his 92 years together with the producer Daniel Tashian.
Bells of St. Augustine was part of a release of five songs grouped under the name of Blue umbrella that both had finished remote dialing due to the coronavirus.
“We teased each other a bit and wrote a song before the day was out,” Bacharach said of his work with Tashian in an interview with the paper. los angeles times.
Bacharach, considered one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century, contacted Tashian after hearing the album he produced for singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves, golden hoursGrammy winner for record of the year in 2019.
“It’s an amazing album, one of the best in recent years. Beautiful songs. Beautifully produced,” defined the musician.
According to Bacharach, working with Tashian was similar to the experience she had with Elvis Costello in 1998 when they created Painted from memory.
Source: Clarin
