Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

You don't need to be Austin Powers to enjoy Burt Bacharach. The composer is a primogeniture descendant of the geniuses who created the great American songbook—the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Hoagy ...

As one of the greatest and most innovative songwriters in pop-music history, Burt Bacharach inspired several generations of fans and fellow musicians alike. Beyond the great art he created, two of my ...

Burt Bacharach died in 2023, but the iconic composer's creative music lives on courtesy of the “What the World Needs Now” tour. The jaunt — which features iconic singer-songwriter-producer Todd ...

Elvis Costello has announced the release of The Songs of Bacharach & Costello, which features music he created with legendary composer Burt Bacharach. Available on March 3, the collection includes ...

From “Walk on By” to “The Look of Love” to “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” to “The Blob,” Burt Bacharach composed indelible pop songs that became staples of the soundtrack of their eras. The ...

Elvis Costello has announced The Songs of Bacharach & Costello box set, which collects all the published songs that he and Burt Bacharach wrote together, including their 1998 collaborative album ...

It’s a time-proven formula: Pop plus dumb equals ka-ching. So how did Burt Bacharach, one of the most successful pop composers of the twentieth century, end up with a body of sophisticated, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The perfectionist composer was content with being a one-hit musical-theater wonder, calling the experience the hardest thing he had ever done. By ...

During their commercial peak in the 1960s, the songs of Burt Bacharach (who died today at 94) and lyricist Hal David were so commercially successful and ubiquitous that they were often categorized as ...

Over the weekend on Friday (February 10), the song “You Can Have Her” hit streaming platforms and it features the late Bacharach, who died earlier this week, and Costello together. The track was ...