He wrote so many amazing songs.
American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist Burt Bacharach has died at the age of 94.
Variety reports that Bacharach died of natural causes, with his publicist Tina Brausam confirming the news on Thursday (9 February).
Bacharach is considered as being one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music, having composed hundreds of pop songs from the late ’50s through to the ’80s, many of which were in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.
Songs he co-wrote that topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart include ‘This Guy’s in Love with You’, ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’, ‘(They Long to Be) Close to You’, ‘Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)’ and ‘That’s What Friends Are For’.
Over the course of his career, Bacharach also won six Grammys and three Academy Awards.
Two of the Oscars were for the classic Western 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, for which he provided the score and the track ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head’ while the other was for ‘Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)’, his main theme for the 1981 comedy Arthur.
Other famous songs Bacharach wrote include ‘Baby It’s You’, ‘I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself’, ‘Wishin’ and Hopin”, ‘Walk on By’, ‘(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me’, ‘What the World Needs Now is Love’, ‘What’s New Pussycat?’, ‘The Look of Love’, ‘I Say a Little Prayer’, ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ and ‘Heartlight’.
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