Composer Burt Bacharach - perhaps best known for his Oscar-winning song Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - has died aged 94. BethanyMinelle takes a look back at his seven-decade career 👇
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What's New Pussycat? - which featured in the 1965 Woody Allen film of the same name - gave Welsh singerhis second top 40 US hit and was also nominated for an Oscar for best original song the following year. It went on to be sung by stars including Barbra Streisand, The Four Seasons and The Wailers. He went on to study music at Montreal's McGill University, Quebec, Canada, before completing his training at Mannes School of Music, in New York, and at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California.
As the Hollywood star's musical director, arranging and conducting her nightclub shows, he gained greater public prominence, however their working relationship came to an end in the early 1960s, when Bacharach decided to devote himself to his own songwriting full time. During their time creating songs for Warwick, they wrote 39 of her chart hits including Don't Make Me Over, I'll Never Fall In Love Again, Walk On By and Do You Know The Way To San Jose.
Co-written with his then-wife Carole Bayer Sager, the track featured Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight and went on to win a Grammy for Song of the Year.The three would work together once more in 2000, on songs for film Isn't She Great, based on the life of Valley Of The Dolls novelist Jacqueline Susann.
In June 2015, Bacharach played the main stage at Glastonbury Festival, 15 years after he had been forced to pull out of the event due to a shoulder injury. Not known for his political songs, he made an exception in 2018 with Live To See Another Day, dedicated to the survivors of gun violence and with proceeds going to a charity run by the families of some of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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