Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

Hardback

Main Details

Title Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Burt Bacharach
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 243,Width 165
ISBN/Barcode 9780857898012
ClassificationsDewey:782.42164092
Audience
General
Illustrations 2x8pp plates

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publication Date 6 June 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Dietrich to Elvis Costello. Anyone Who Had a Heart is the story of one of the greatest song writers of all time. It traces for the first time in his own words, the life and times of the man who created the music that has become the sound track for the lives of his millions of devoted fans all over the world. Bacharach's songs include: 'Magic Moments' - Perry Como, ' Baby It's You' - The Shirelles / The Beatles, 'Please Stay' - The Drifters / Marc Almond, 'Wishin' and Hopin'' - Dionne Warwick / Dusty Springfield / Ani DiFranco, 'Walk On By' - Dionne Warwick / The Stranglers, 'I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself' - Dusty Springfield / The White Stripes, '(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me' - Sandie Shaw, 'A Message to Martha' - Adam Faith, 'What's New Pussycat?' - Tom Jones, 'Trains and Boats and Planes' - Billy J. Kramer the Dakotas, 'Alfie' - Cilla Black / Cher / Rumer, 'I Say a Little Prayer' - Dionne Warwick / Aretha Franklin, 'Do You Know the Way to San Jose?' - Dionne Warwick, 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' - B.J. Thomas / Sacha Distel / Johnny Mathis, 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again' - Bobby Gentry, 'Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)' - Burt Bacharach / Barry Manilow / Shirley Bassey.

Author Biography

Burt Bacharach has had seventy Top Forty hits, won three Academy Awards, eight Grammys and an Emmy. He was recently given the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, an award previously won by Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney.

Reviews

He made his fortune writing the biggest songs ever... Now, at long last, he has written this sensational autobiography. * Mail on Sunday * Hugely entertaining... illuminating on the craft of the songwriter; surprisingly candid on his often rackety personal life. -- Mick Brown * Daily Telegraph * Burt's romantic escapades were never-ending, as well as highly entertaining... an unusually revealing and even-handed portrait of a talent in a million. * Daily Mail *