Burt Bacharach

Over his career, he scored 73 Top 40 hits in the US and 52 in the UK, working with artists including Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Barbara ...

I was caught in the drift of things," he later reflected. what a loss to the songwriting world and to all of us— DavidGArnold (@DavidGArnold) I was very fortunate." "His observation was: Never be ashamed of something that's melodic, one could whistle," Bacharach recalled. After graduating from school, he studied music theory and composition. It was a pleasure to have known you." "I wasn't chasing it. It was a "very costly and unfortunate" dispute, Bacharach told the Guardian in 2019, adding: "I stupidly handled it wrong." His songs will live forever," he added. [Dave Davies said](https://twitter.com/davedavieskinks/status/1623707915763720193) Bacharach was "probably one of the most influential songwriters of our time" and "a great inspiration". one of the greatest songwriters of all time who found the finest lyricists to match his elegant ,sophisticated , beguiling , intensely beautiful melodic and harmonic skill . [The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson](https://twitter.com/BrianWilsonLive/status/1623720764372402179) said he was "a hero of mine and very influential on my work", adding: "He was a giant in the music business.

Burt Bacharach, the legendary composer of hits such as Say a Little Prayer and Walk on By, has died at the age of 94.

He was a giant in the music business. He also had a daughter, Nikki, from a previous marriage. Bacharach left Missouri early in his life and grew up in Queens, New York City, where he showed an interest in jazz. Burt was a hero of mine and very influential on my work. The couple had two children Olivier and Raleigh. While in the army he would play piano for other officers when stationed in Germany. He wrote the movie soundtracks for What’s New, Pussycat? Bacharach also wrote for Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, The Carpenters and Tom Jones among others. He was a giant in the music business.” One of the greatest songwriting legacies in the history of ever. He was considered a genius in the creation of pop and easy listening music. In a statement to the

Burt Bacharach, the popular composer and Oscar winner who delighted millions with unforgettable melodies such as Walk on By, Do You Know the Way to San Jose ...

He once played a piece for piano, violin and oboe for Milhaud that contained a melody he was ashamed to have written, as 12-point atonal music was in vogue at the time. "I didn't want to write with Hal or anybody," he told the AP in 2004. During each performance, she would introduce him in grand style: "I would like you to meet the man, he's my arranger, he's my accompanist, he's my conductor, and I wish I could say he's my composer. He wrote his first song at McGill and listened for months to Mel Torme's The Christmas Song. Nor did he want to fulfil a commitment to record Warwick. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but soon moved to New York City. He was preceded in death by his daughter with Dickinson, Nikki Bacharach. Besides Warwick, the Bacharach-David team was producing winners for other performers. Fellow songwriter Sammy Cahn liked to joke that the smiling, wavy-haired Bacharach was the first composer he ever knew who didn't look like a dentist. He was a frequent guest at the White House, whether the president was Republican or Democrat. Married four times, he formed his most lasting ties to work. He triumphed in many art forms.

The musician composed more than 500 songs during his career and was behind hits including “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on ...

He was a perfectionist who took three weeks to write Alfie and might spend hours tweaking a single chord. He is survived by Hansen, as well as his children Oliver, Raleigh and Cristopher, Brausam said. He was a frequent guest at the White House, whether the president was Republican or Democrat. In 1982, he and his then-wife, lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, won for Best That You Can Do, the theme from Arthur. He grew up on jazz and classical music and had little taste for rock when he was breaking into the business in the 1950s. His sensibility often seemed more aligned with Tin Pan Alley than with Bob Dylan, John Lennon and other writers who later emerged, but rock composers appreciated the depth of his seemingly old-fashioned sensibility.

Singer and performer, who had 73 Top 40 hits in the US and 52 in the UK, died at home in Los Angeles of natural causes.

They scored back to back UK No 1s with two of their earliest songs, The Story of My Life by Marty Robbins (Michael Holliday in the UK hit version) and Magic Moments by Perry Como. Together, he and David created a string of all-time classics: I Say a Little Prayer, sung by Aretha Franklin, What’s New Pussycat? He also worked as an arranger and conductor for Marlene Dietrich when she toured Europe in the late 50s and early 60s. He was a giant in the music business. [Burt Bacharach](https://www.theguardian.com/music/burt-bacharach), the songwriter and performer who turned easy listening into high art, has died at 94. Burt was a hero of mine and very influential on my work.

More than 1200 artists performed his songs, which won six Grammys and three Oscars.

Asked what it was like to work with a lyricist 60 years his junior, he said age "only has a part if you've lost your edge, your sharpness or your writing... I'd hear rhymes, I'd hear thoughts and I'd hear it almost immediately." I'd hear his melodies and I'd hear lyrics. The pair performed a Tiny Desk (home) concert for National Public Radio in September 2020 with Bacharach on piano from his home in Los Angeles and Tashian singing from his garage in Nashville. Bacharach and David frequently displayed a magic touch for Warwick, writing her hits Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer, In Between the Heartaches and Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as Do You Know the Way to San Jose and Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94, his publicist says.

From The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson to Sheryl Crow and Diane Warren, artists and composers are describing how the 94-year-old's work influenced their music.

James Bond score composer David Arnold said Bacharach "found the finest lyricists to match his elegant, sophisticated, beguiling, intensely beautiful melodic and harmonic skill", while The Kinks' Dave Davies said he was one of the most influential songwriters of our time. The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson described Bacharach as one of his heroes, Sheryl Crow said he was one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and Paul Stanley of Kiss noted the "treasure of amazing songs" Bacharach had left behind. A number of artists have taken to social media to remember Bacharach in the wake of his death.

Along with lyricist Hal David, he created hits for Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones and Dionne Warwick among many others, as well as numerous movie themes. Here is ...

We've saved the best Bacharach track, according to Spotify's algorithm, for last. "I thought, I'm going to punch the [stuffing] out of it on What's New Pussycat," said Jones. I have to have a voice of authority.'" This desperately heartfelt and horn-filled break-up ballad, written by Bacharach and David, gave Dusty Springfield a number three hit in the UK in the summer of 1964. Written by Bacharach, Luther Dixon and Mack David about surrendering to the powers of love (despite your mates trying to warn you off the idea), this was recorded and released by girl group The Shirelles in 1961, giving them a number eight hit in the US. One of Warwick's best-loved songs peaked at number six in the US in 1964, giving her a second international million-seller, following Anyone Who Had A Heart. "And Burt said, 'That's what I want. Nominated for an Oscar in 1966 for best original song, this was the theme for the comedy film of the same name starring Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of a woman thinking of a partner who is on his way to the Vietnam War. A young Cher reworked the track as the theme song of the 1966 movie of the same name, starring Michael Caine, and it was also sung, with chart success, by Warwick. It was later covered in the UK by Cilla Black, whose version turned out to be one of the biggest female chart hits in 1960s, staying at number one for three weeks. Its appeal continued through to the 1980s, when it was famously chosen to advertise Quality Street sweets; the '90s, when British pop group Erasure cut a version; and the 2000s, when it featured in the hit movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

His collaborations with the lyricist Hal David — “The Look of Love,” “Walk On By,” “Alfie” and many more hits — evoked a sleek era of airy romance.

[Marty Robbins’s “The Story of My Life”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHZCmVQnNA) and [Perry Como’s “Magic Moments.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_hWTuSYSk) Mr. [“God Give Me Strength”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwyvIf-TmA) for the 1996 film “Grace of My Heart,” loosely based on the life of Carole King. [“On My Own”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-SQRJbtMqs) and the AIDS fund-raising anthem [“That’s What Friends Are For,”](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=that%27s+what+friends+are+for+dionne+warwick) which went on to win the Grammy for song of the year. Warwick in the pop-soul balladeer Luther Vandross, whose lush 1980s remakes of [“A House Is Not a Home”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGib6okEeZ4) and [“Anyone Who Had a Heart”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlrhuppiCcg) transformed them into dreamy quasi-operatic arias decorated with florid gospel melismas. Hilliard) and [“Make It Easy on Yourself”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvuk9KddXb8) (lyrics by Mr. [“Mexican Divorce”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UwQjkmQ5KM) and [“Please Stay,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iY2UpSz9Vs) two songs he wrote with the lyricist Bob Hilliard. And the Bacharach-David team conquered Broadway in December 1968 with [“Promises, Promises.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNwOVUFec-E&list=PL7BF367F005988986) [“The Look of Love”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1d65OHYXo) (Dusty Springfield’s sultry 1967 hit, featured in the movie “Casino Royale”), [“This Guy’s in Love With You”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYnbbu1OmA) (a No. [title song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpKAnp5Klzw) and the folk-pop ballad [“I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzQBOBoPg04) and was nominated for seven Tony Awards. His original score for the 1969 film [“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7nbdW23KY&list=PLf10VA90zVAreb5bqHEM3W3ztRXw3ulpW) which included “Raindrops” (a No. [“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySlY1XKlhM) written with Mr. [“Don’t Make Me Over”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgxuE7WD6U) in 1962, the team turned out a steady stream of hits for Ms.

Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer and Oscar winner who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies ...

Bacharach liked to experiment with time signatures and arrangements, such as having two pianists play on “Walk on By,” their performances just slightly out of sync to give the song “a jagged kind of feeling,” he wrote in his memoir. He reached a new generation of listeners in the 1990s with the help of Costello and others. "I didn't want to write with Hal or anybody," he told the AP in 2004. He once played a piece for piano, violin and oboe for Milhaud that contained a melody he was ashamed to have written, as 12-point atonal music was in vogue at the time. During each performance, she would introduce him in grand style: “I would like you to meet the man, he’s my arranger, he’s my accompanist, he’s my conductor, and I wish I could say he’s my composer. When a friend who had been touring with Marlene Dietrich was unable to make a show in Las Vegas, he asked Bacharach to step in. After his discharge, he returned to New York and tried to break into the music business. In his life, and in his music, he stood apart. He was a perfectionist who took three weeks to write “Alfie” and might spend hours tweaking a single chord. He received two Academy Awards in 1970, for the score of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and for the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (shared with David). He was a frequent guest at the White House, whether the president was Republican or Democrat. He grew up on jazz and classical music and had little taste for rock when he was breaking into the business in the 1950s.

The composer behind more than 500 songs, including six that won Grammys, has died.

Asked what it was like to work with a lyricist 60 years his junior, he said age “only has a part if you’ve lost your edge, your sharpness or your writing... I’d hear rhymes, I’d hear thoughts and I’d hear it almost immediately.” I’d hear his melodies and I’d hear lyrics. The pair performed a Tiny Desk (home) concert for National Public Radio in September 2020 with Bacharach on piano from his home in Los Angeles and Tashian singing from his garage in Nashville. Bacharach and David frequently displayed a magic touch for Warwick, writing her hits Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer, In Between the Heartaches and Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as Do You Know the Way to San Jose and Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94, his publicist says.

Bacharach was the talent behind some of the biggest hits of the past century, an unforgettable performer who also composed songs for the likes of Dionne ...

"I remember sitting opposite him at the Sydney Opera House at the piano and at his home in the (United) States," Wilkins said. Wilkins called his collaborations with lyricist Hal David "timeless" and said his songs will continue to feature in movies for years to come. READ MORE:

Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as Do You Know the Way to San Jose and Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head provided a mellow alternative soundtrack.

Asked what it was like to work with a lyricist 60 years his junior, he said age “only has a part if you’ve lost your edge, your sharpness or your writing… I’d hear rhymes, I’d hear thoughts and I’d hear it almost immediately.” I’d hear his melodies and I’d hear lyrics. The pair performed a Tiny Desk (home) concert for National Public Radio in September 2020 with Bacharach on piano from his home in Los Angeles and Tashian singing from his garage in Nashville. Bacharach and David frequently displayed a magic touch for Warwick, writing her hits Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer, In Between the Heartaches and Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as Do You Know the Way to San Jose and Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94, his publicist says.

You need to hear only a few bars of a Bacharach song to sense his singular gift.

Henry](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/are-all-short-stories-o-henry-stories) story, “The Gift of the Magi.” Congratulating him on his body of work, one sensed a just detectable wince at hearing his sixties music praised all over again, in the predictable way of such things. Whereas Irving Berlin and [Paul McCartney](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show) are fountains of music of many kinds, a smaller group make music that sounds like that of no one else on earth. “Painted from Memory” and “This House Is Empty Now” and the haunting “In the Darkest Place” will live on as recordings. [Ishtar](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/elaine-may-talks-about-ishtar),” it has never had a rescue operation attempted on its behalf—remained the singular painful trauma in Bacharach’s career. David and Bacharach, with Warwick as an incidental casualty, broke apart in 1973 with the car-crash production of a single Hollywood film. (One of his early songs, “Baby, It’s You,” made a memorable appearance in

Burt Bacharach, one of the titans of 20th-century popular song, has died in Los Angeles, aged 94. The pianist and composer was best known for evergreen hits ...

After graduating from high school, he studied music theory and composition at Mannes School of Music, where he was exposed to the theories and teachings of Henry Cowell and Darius Milhaud. Their first hit as collaborators came with singer Marty Robbins’ The Story of My Life later that year. Bacharach described his compositional technique as “horizontal”, one in which melody was allowed to stretch naturally across chord structures and rhythms.

You might not think you know the legendary composer's music, but trust us. You do.

What critics of his overreaching vocal missed, he said, was that the maestro had written a tune that was “pretty much impossible for anyone to sing.” The song that explains why Dionne Warwick was Bacharach and David’s interpreter of choice, sung at the wheel of a pale blue convertible cruising Sunset with oversized sunglasses, a fluttering headscarf and a knowing smirk for all the other wannabes coming the other way. If a song could blush, this is the colour. The technical challenge, for time signature nerds, is the shift from 5/4 to 4/4 to 7/8 in the chorus. The gift for the singer is how that rhythm plugs you into the held breath of the crushed lover: Indignant, enraged, and utterly devastated in a handful of choking phrases too proud to break down and sob. “You take a song like Anyone Who Had a Heart, and you tell me that’s easy listening?

Composer Burt Bacharach, who has died of natural causes at the age of 94, wrote more than 500 songs — many of them classics. Here music guru Simon Collins ...

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The composer died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday (02.08.23), aged 94, and Sheryl has taken to social media to heap praise on him. The 60 ...

Recording with Hal David, Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin, the late songwriter's discog includes some of the best pop songs ever written.

Proof that Bacharach’s melodies were strong enough to be carried even by people who couldn’t really sing came when the trumpeter Herb Alpert sighed his way through This Guy’s in Love With You – and sounded perfectly suited to it, like someone wandering through a park in the afternoon sun, unable to believe his good fortune. The next three might be the best pop songs ever written, and in the case of this one, Bacharach and David were definitely served by having Aretha Franklin sing it (if Warwick was the pair’s definitive interpreter, she couldn’t get near Franklin on I Say a Little Prayer). First recorded by the actor Richard Chamberlain in 1963, but brought to perfection in 1970 by the Carpenters, Close to You highlights one of Bacharach’s preferred tricks – an instrumental melody line that’s jaunty and melancholy.

Pop composer Burt Bacharach died on Feb. 8, 2023, at the age of 94. He left a legacy of classic songs beloved by generations.

The breakdown of their successful musical partnership saw Bacharach lose interest in writing music for a spell, and affected his relationship with Warwick. You may have noticed the sheer number – and range – of artists Bacharach worked with. It speaks to the quality and endurance of his output. The show contained a number of songs that topped the charts, most notably Warwick’s version of the show-stopping “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” In the hands of Isaac Hayes, the sweet refrains of “Walk on By” becomes a psychedelic funk classic. Bacharach met David in 1957 in the storied [Brill Building](https://www.history-of-rock.com/brill_building.htm) in New York City – a place where a young songwriter could perhaps catch a break. The songs were so well written that they could easily be reworked into different genres, and break the confines of “easy listening” – a genre often maligned as unhip. This was eventually resolved with her recording of one of Bacharach’s most memorable songs, 1985’s “That’s What Friends are For,” written with his then-wife, Carole Bayer Sager. They also stood apart from other notable songwriting partners of the age – Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, for example – in that the songs were written for others to perform. The 1968 show “Promises, Promises” was groundbreaking in its [immense innovation in popular music](https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/culture/music/the-evolution-of-music-the-music-revolution-of-the-1960s) – Bacharach may not have been taken as seriously as many of his contemporaries. Bacharach also won the Oscar for best original score.

Bacharach was a college-educated composer and classically trained pianist. His highly refined musical technique combined with Hal David's skills for memorable ...

[Isaac Hayes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loAY27W5IY&ab_channel=IsaacHayes-Topic) expanded the song into a 12-minute extravaganza. [Warwick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk7CNHHIuH4&ab_channel=DionneWarwick-Topic) also recorded and released it at the same time, but when performed by Benton it is a rare example of a sentimental song about male longing set in a domestic space. The opening is used to set up a song that gently evokes tensions between fondness for and frustrations with home. Bacharach sang A House is not a Home as his own first lead vocal recording on the album Reach Out (1967). Bacharach was able to find a musical language that conveyed each powerfully and for this he will be remembered. [The Look of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMT6uYuDvM&ab_channel=HDFilmTributes) for the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) became better known than the film. Then there was the aching, velvet voice of Karen Carpenter in her brother Richard’s arrangement of [(They Long to be) Close to You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M268Csnue9I&ab_channel=TheCarpenters-Topic) (1970). By contrast, in 1978 The Stranglers produced a version that stripped the song down to its raw expressive essence. [Walk on By](https://open.spotify.com/track/6y6KOwYsmPXhiOTayBpoBz?autoplay=true) (1963) was a massive international hit for Dionne Warwick. Aretha Franklin’s [I Say a Little Prayer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDyiREoBw0o&ab_channel=ArethaFranklin) (1968) won her a Grammy. Together with lyricist Hal David, Bacharach created some of the most affecting, subtle and poignant songs of the second half of the 20th century. With hits going back to the 1950s, Bacharach continued working until the age of 92.

The life of Burt Bacharach, who died on Thursday at his home in L.A. aged 94, spanned most of the revolutions in 20th century music.

In 2015 – a kind of culmination of appreciation for the man who had rarely sought frontman status – [he even performed at Glastonbury](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/27/burt-bacharach-at-glastonbury-2015-review-sunny-hits-by-an-easy-listening-king), to rapturous welcome. His comeback and rise to a beloved new prominence began in the 80s, writing more movie music with his third wife Carole Bayer Sager. and Massive Attack all cited him as an influence, and The White Stripes released a hard-thumping cover of ‘I Don’t Know What to Do With Myself’ on Elephant. By the ‘90s, he was collaborating with everyone from Elvis Costello, in the 1998 collaboration album Painted from Memory, to Doctor Dre on Bacharach’s own 2005 album At This Time. All in all, the pair had written over 100 songs together by the end of the decade. And yet the song works even better – Bacharach’s musical ideas are placed in the service of something grittier. Bacharach and David’s banner decade was undoubtedly the 60s, in which they turned out hit after hit with effortlessness and invention. It’s a completely different song: imbued by a garage and proto-punk sensibility, with the raw and ragged vocals of frontman Arthur Lee, the complexities of the song are smoothed out, transformed in a driving, tambourine-laced backbeat. No less a music nerd than Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen called his style a combination of Ravel and street soul. Producer Phil Ramone called him “one of the most amazing musicians in the world”. Born Burt Freeman Bacharach in Kansas City, Missouri in 1928, to Jewish parents – Bert Bacharach, a newspaper columnist, and Irma Freeman, an artist/songwriter – he was immersed in divergent musical streams from an early age. His combination of unusual chord, key and time signature changes and sinuous melodies imbued a melancholic, pained truth to love songs.

Elvis Costello, at the opening of his 10-night stand in New York the day after Burt Bacharach died, performed three of his longtime friend's songs.

Even when he first recorded “Baby, It’s You” with Lowe in the ’80s, Costello was no johnny-come-lately to the work of Bacharach. Look here also for a coming conversation with Costello about why he settled on doing a no-repeats run at the Gramercy where upwards of 200 different songs will be performed over the next two weeks. But in hindsight, the Bacharach-David team ranks high in the pantheon of pop songwriting.”) He covered three songs that Bacharach had hits with as a songwriter in the 1960s, with the promise of getting to some of the many songs they wrote together later in the run. “I read an extraordinary and, I have to say, not tremendously insightful article in the New York Times… He stretched that to include a few songs others had written prior to that date, including a couple by Van Morrison.

In a tribute to longtime collaborator Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello sang "Baby, It's You," "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and “Please Stay” during his Gramercy ...

“I can’t wait to share our entire story with the world on March 3rd.” He recorded Yeah, [but] it’s never time to say goodbye to somebody if you love ’em. And people say, when somebody leaves you who’s a great age, they say, well, it was a good ending. And I’m not ashamed to say I did love this man. [four-CD box set](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/elvis-costello-burt-bacharach-boxed-set-collaborations-songs-1235483711/) [ “The Songs of Bacharach and Costello” in March,](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/elvis-costello-burt-bacharach-boxed-set-collaborations-songs-1235483711/) highlighting the musicians’ decades-long oeuvre and friendship.

Elvis Costello paid tribute to his longtime friend and collaborator Burt Bacharach Thursday following the songwriter's death at the age of 94.

Never would I have imagined that my admiration for him would grow into a 25-year collaboration and friendship,” Costello tweeted of the collaboration in January. These words I’ve been asked to write are being written with sadness over the loss of my Dear Friend and my Musical Partner.” “We will, of course, be delving into the songbook that Burt and I assembled over 30 years,” Costello said. Bacharach died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. And when somebody reached a great age, people say, ‘Well, it was a good ending.’ Yeah, it’s never time to say goodbye to somebody if you love them. “A really great man left us yesterday.

Costello played the Bacharach songs “Baby, It's You” and “Anyone Who Had a Heart”

[The Songs of Bacharach & Costello](https://pitchfork.com/news/elvis-costello-and-burt-bacharach-announce-new-box-set/), a box set collecting their collaborative material through the years. Bacharach [died](https://pitchfork.com/news/burt-bacharach-master-tunesmith-dies-at-94/) at his home in Los Angeles on February 8, and Costello took a moment to pay tribute to the songwriter as part of the first performance of [his 10-night residency](https://pitchfork.com/news/elvis-costello-details-10-night-residency-in-new-york-city/) at New York’s Gramercy Theater. It was later recorded by the Beatles and featured on their debut album, Please Please Me, in 1963.