Bacharach delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of songs such as Walk On By, Do You Know The Way To San Jose and dozens of other hits
The cause of death, which happened at home in Los Angeles, was natural causes, his publicist Tina Brausam said on Thursday.
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"The shorthand version of him is that he's something to do with easy listening," Elvis Costello, who wrote the 1998 album Painted From Memory with Bacharach, said in a 2018 interview. In 1982, he and his then-wife, lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, won Oscars for Best That You Can Do, the theme from Arthur. His other movie soundtracks included What’s New, Pussycat?, Alfie and the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale.
Married four times, he formed his most lasting ties to work. He was a perfectionist who took three weeks to write Alfie and might spend hours tweaking a single chord. Sager once observed that Bacharach’s life routines essentially stayed the same - only the wives changed.He credited much of his style to his love of bebop and to his classical education, especially under the tutelage of Darius Milhaud, the famed composer.
In the 21st century, he was still testing new ground, writing his own lyrics and recording with rapper Dr Dre. "They were just so incredibly exciting that all of a sudden, I got into music in a way I never had before," he recalled in the memoir Anyone Who Had A Heart, published in 2013."What I heard in those clubs turned my head around."
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