Anyone can write one good song. But how many songwriters can create a body of work that — primarily through the voices of others — becomes not only era-defining and genre-defining, but goes beyond its era and beyond its genre to become a classic? Probably only a handful, and Burt Bacharach was one of them.
Burt Bacharach, who died on Thursday at age 94, has written many of your favorite songs.A lot of people can write one good song. But how many songwriters can create a body of work that primarily through the voices of others not only defines an era and a genre, but goes beyond its era and beyond its genre to become a classic? Probably only a handful, and Burt Bacharach was one of them.
While yielding lyric-writing duties to his longtime songwriting partner Hal David or one of his many other collaborators, Bacharach displayed a mastery of setting a lyric to a melody or composing a melody for lyrical context that is unrivaled by any other musician except maybe Paul McCartney.
Bacharach’s time-transcending body of work can only be compared to The Beatles — as a staggering long-burning burst of creativity that stands as one of the most prolific of any musical era. In the comedy, Powers has been frozen since the '60s along with a small batch of possessions that includes a record of Bacharach playing his own compositions. While Powers is a fish-out-of-water in the cynical, kinetic 1990s, his free-spirited love of love is undeniably a lost concept in the modern era.
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