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“Karen manages to get across both sadness and silliness”: How the Carpenters wowed Lennon and McCartney with an emotive yet absurd No 1 hit

Macca’s verdict: “The best female voice in the world”

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“By far, the most stressful day of my entire life": The unexpected story of a Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic that reduced Noel Gallagher to a nervous wreck

How a sublimely dreamy, easy-listening love song captured the collective minds of middle America during one of the nation’s most turbulent years

MusicRadar

Burt Bacharach remembered by Elvis Costello

The musician recalls a giant of American song – a man who through their collaborations taught him the real art of songwriting

The Guardian - UK

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Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal, Barry Gibb among this year’s class of Kennedy Center Honors

Dionne Warwick and Renee Fleming are also being honored with the prestigious recognition.

Chicago Sun-Times

Billy Crystal and Queen Latifah headline this year's class of Kennedy Center Honors recipients

You know you’ve made a cultural impact when Henry Kissinger quotes your own joke back to you

The Independent UK

Burt Bacharach: A giant of popular music

With his masterful fusion of musical genres, Bacharach added classic after classic to the pop songbook – including Sixties masterpieces ‘Walk on By’, ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ and ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose’

The Independent UK

Appreciation: Burt Bacharach, dead at 94, was a music legend who spoke out: 'I account for what I will say'

As one of the greatest and most innovative songwriters in pop-music history, Burt Bacharach inspired several generations of fans and fellow musicians alike. Beyond the great art he created, two of my fondest memories of Bacharach — who died Wednesday of natural causes at the age of 94 — reflect…

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Burt Bacharach mastered the art of the perfect pop song – and that ain't easy

Easy on the ear, perhaps. But the label of “easy listening” often attached to the songs of Burt Bacharach belies the mastery of his talent in crafting perfect moments in music.

The Conversation

Burt Bacharach: 10 of his greatest songs

Recording with Hal David, Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin, the late songwriter’s discog includes some of the best pop songs ever written

The Guardian - UK

Burt Bacharach created music for all the ways men fall in love

American composer Burt Bacharach, who has died at the age of 94, is arguably one the greatest songwriters of all time. With hits going back to the 1950s, Bacharach continued working until the age of 92.

The Conversation

Burt Bacharach: 20 essential songs

Music poured out of Burt Bacharach like martinis out of an ice-cold shaker.

Los Angeles Times

Dionne Warwick: Burt Bacharach’s death ‘like losing a family member’

Bacharach co-wrote a number of Warwick’s biggest hits, including Walk On By

Evening Standard

Michael Phillips: Burt Bacharach wrote the songs the world needed then. And now

It’s the one sincere moment in the entire “Austin Powers” franchise.

Chicago Tribune

Burt Bacharach: an astonishing creator of impermeable classics and supersmooth pop

He was dubbed ‘easy listening’ but this was nonsense. His dazzling music, a result of classical tuition and nights in bebop clubs, defied categories – and made stars of soul singers, rock bands and mum-friendly crooners

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Dionne Warwick says death of composer Burt Bacharach is ‘like losing a family member’

Dionne Warwick paid tribute Thursday to late composer Burt Bacharach, the essential musician behind her signature hits “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose.”

The Independent UK

Burt Bacharach’s death ‘like losing a family member’, says Dionne Warwick

Bacharach co-wrote a number of Warwick’s biggest hits, including Walk On By and Do You Know The Way To San Jose.

Evening Standard

Who was Burt Bacharach, the legendary composer and hitmaker who has died at 94

The American musician won eight Grammys and worked with some of the biggest stars of film and popular music

The Guardian - UK

Burt Bacharach obituary

Songwriter whose hits, including I Say a Little Prayer and Walk On By, became classics of easy-listening pop

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Los Angeles Times

Burt Bacharach, the essence of pop music success, dies at 94

LOS ANGELES — At the Brill Building, the legendary songwriters’ mecca on Broadway in New York City, composer Burt Bacharach first teamed with lyricist Hal David in 1956. Over the next decade, the two helped define the broad reaches of popular music with a run of hit songs that poured…

Reuters

Factbox-Burt Bacharach, songwriter and composer

Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94.

Chicago Sun-Times

Burt Bacharach, legendary pop music composer, dies at 94

Over the past 70 years, only Lennon-McCartney, Carole King and a handful of others rivaled his genius for instantly catchy songs that remained performed, played and hummed long after they were written.

Reuters

U.S. composer Burt Bacharach dies at age 94

The Guardian - UK

Burt Bacharach, master of pop songwriting, dies aged 94

Singer and performer, who wrote Walk on By and What the World Needs Now Is Love, died at home in Los Angeles of natural causes

The Independent UK

Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94

Los Angeles Times

Twitter maven Dionne Warwick wants a meeting with Elon Musk: 'Where's your head?'

LOS ANGELES — There's no shortage of topics Dionne Warwick can talk about: Her status as one of music's most beloved and enduring singers. A six-decade career marked by a catalog of huge hits including "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and "I Say a…

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