Legendary Songwriter Burt Bacharach Dead At 94

Legendary a URL=”https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music”>songwriter Burt Bacharach, composer died Multiple reports indicate that Wednesday was at the age of 1994. 

Classic tunes are the result of the music industry legend, including “I Say A Little Prayer,” “Walk On By,” “What The World Needs Now Is Love.”

He was also responsible for the composition of the themes songs for many films that are still iconic, such as “What’s New, Pussycat?” “Alfie,” “Arthur,” Per BBC News.

Over the course his career, the songwriter achieved 73 Top 40 Hits in the United States. Bacharach is a six-time Grammy Award winner and three time Academy Award winner, his songs have been recorded more than 1000 times.

He collaborated extensively with some of the most prominent musicians in the business, including DionneWarwick, Frank Sinatra. The Beatles, Barbra STreisand. Tom Jones. Aretha Franklin.

Bacharach’s musical career began after high school when he began studying music theory and composition. Bacharach served in the military and played the piano at the soldiers’ bases. 

Next, he became Marlene Dietrich’s personal conductor, which he described as a stroke of luck.

“I wasn’t chasing it. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was caught in the drift of things,” Bacharach said. “I’m not a person who will walk over people, kill people, step on people to get to the next place where they want to be. Things just happened for me. I was very fortunate.”

The music legend was married four more times: to Paula Stewart, in 1953, to Angie Dickinson, in 1958, to Carole Bayer Sager, in 1982, and finally to Jane Hansen, in 1993.

Hansen, their children Oliver and Raleigh, as well as his son Cristopher (who he shares with Sager) are his survivors. Bacharach’s daughter Nikki died by suicide in 2007 when she was 40. 

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