Burt Bacharach Dies at 94
Thursday, February 09, 2023
Composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach has died at the age of 94.
The six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner co-wrote such hits as “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” and “That’s What Friends Are For.”
According to the New York Times, his publicist Tina Brausam confirmed the death. She declined to specify a cause.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“A die-hard romantic whose mature style might be described as Wagnerian lounge music, Mr. Bacharach fused the chromatic harmonies and long, angular melodies of late-19th-century symphonic music with modern, bubbly pop orchestration, and embellished the resulting mixture with a staccato rhythmic drive,” wrote the Times. “His effervescent compositions epitomized sophisticated hedonism to a generation of young adults only a few years older than the Beatles.”
People magazine named him one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2000 and one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1999.
In 2009, he received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.
The award was presented to him during the Great American Songbook concert, which paid tribute to his music
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