Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American popular music for half a century, died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
He was 94.Bacharach’s publicist Tina Brausam revealed the news on Thursday.As a tunesmith, the nonpareil melodist Bacharach found fame in every medium.His songs — many of them written with lyricist Hal David — became chart-topping successes, particularly in the hands of vocalist Dionne Warwick.
Among ’60s songwriting duos, only Lennon-McCartney rivaled Bacharach-David in terms of commercial and artistic achievement.
Bacharach collected six Grammys as a writer, arranger and performer from 1967-2005.His music was ubiquitous on screens both big and small in the ’60s and ’70s, and he was recognized by the Academy Awards and Golden Globes for his work on “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) and “Arthur” (1981).
He collected a 1971 Emmy for a TV recital of his work.On Broadway,
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