'I'm not ashamed to say I did love this man for everything he gave, Mr. Burt Bacharach,' Elvis Costello says of longtime friend and collaborator.
Bacharach’s death was announced just hours before Costello took the stage for the first of
, and while the evening’s program was set to focus on the music he wrote in 1977 and earlier, Costello deviated from the setlist in order to remember the pop composer with whom he recorded 1998’s“It’s been a tough day — I can’t deny,” Costello told the audience. “A really great man left us yesterday. And when somebody reached a great age, people say, ‘Well, it was a good ending.’ Yeah, it’s never time to say goodbye to somebody if you love them.
However, Costello did perform a pair of tracks in memory of Bacharach: A cover of the Beatles’ “Baby It’s You,” and a take on the Bacharach/Hal David-penned Dionne Warwick hit “Anyone Who Had a Heart.”, a 4-LP box set featuring all of the duo’s published works as well as 19 previously unreleased recordings, including live performances and songs written from some unrealized musical projects.
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