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Burt Bacharach


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I got teary at That's what friends are for.  I loved it.  Legend in every sense of the word.

 

I knew it would be a bit cabaret and cruise ship, but like my mate said "what have you done with your life? This guy wrote Raindrops keep falling..."

 

There haven't been many like him before, and I doubt there ever will be again.

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Was one of the highlights of the weekend for me. We were sat on the grass with our friends, eating cheese and biscuits and drinking Port, a tradition we do every year. We had enough left over so a lot of the crowd round us had some as well. Was a beautiful moment for me

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Not sure if it was bad but I found it dull & boring.

 

That male singer he had on stage with him was so smug looking it wound me up.

Yeah, dull & boring probably sums it up right.

 

So cheesy too. I'm not sure what I expected mind. Perhaps I was hoping he'd bring at least one guest on, even though he was booked quite late on.

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I'm never sure if its the music or the lyrics which are more important to the songs

I don't know how Bacharach/David worked together as a songwriting team, but would Hal David's lyrics on things like walk on by, say a little prayer, always something there to remind me, never fall in love again, raindrops etc. etc. have the longevity they do if it wasn't for Burt's music?

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Just checked out lyrics of Me Japanese Boy I love you and definitely not Hal's finest moment.

 

As you said It is obviously a team effort and I guess it hasn't hurt that the artists who have released their songs have included Perry Como, Gene Pitney, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield and of course Dionne Warwick.

 

Do you know if the music comes first and then the lyrics or the other way round like Bernie Taupin & Elton John?

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Our writing process was very interesting. We would sit in a room in the Brill Building and maybe Hal would have an idea — a couple of lines, a title — or I would have a music fragment. And we would go from there. It wasn't like we would sit in that room and finish a song. That never happened. Hal would take his story, get on the train, and go home to Roslyn out in Long Island.

And I would take whatever music I had and go back to my apartment. Then we'd meet a day or two later, or maybe talk it through on the phone.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/03/entertainment/la-et-cm-hal-david-burt-bacharach-appreciation-20120904

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Glad I watched gaz coombes and stayed up there after reading this indepth review wooders

 

I wasn't sure what to do having seen Gaz a few weeks previous. Ended up choosing Gaz and then strolled down to Burt. Glad I did. Gaz was superb.

 

Happy I saw Burt and all, but the off season Thursday afternoon in Pontins vibe to the show didn't do it for me. I was quite far back mind you.

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A bottle of gin, surrounded by friends and family and 'what the world needs now..' coming off that stage, you'd need a heart of stone not to have descended into a sentimental weeping fool.

Was deep in the remnants of a box of father ted and smoking plenty, beautiful way to spend an hour away from the madness.

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