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Highlights from Burt Bacharach’s legendary career in music

By Associated Press

Feb. 9, 2023

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Marlene Dietrich attracted crowds of newsmen to press conference in West Berlin. After a 15 year absence she returned to her home town for a three-day performance. Marlene and her piano player, Burt Bacharach, at the news conference in West Berlin, May 2, 1960.
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German entertainer Marlene Dietrich, "The World's Most Glamorous Grandmother", pictured with her musical director Burt Bacharach after their arrival from Paris at a London Airport October 24, 1963.
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Actress Angie Dickinson and her husband Burt Bacharach take home their baby daughter, Lea, from Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, Calif., on October 11, 1966.
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Burt Bacharach, on April 1, 1968 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, has written so many hit songs that he's stopped counting.
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Composer Burt Bacharach is shown working at the piano on his first Broadway musical "Promises, Promises" in New York City on Sept. 6, 1968.
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German-born actress Elke Sommer poses with Burt Bacharach after he won a Golden Globe award in Hollywood, Feb. 3, 1970 at the annual presentations to the film and television industry by the Hollywood foreign press association. He won for writing the best original musical score in a motion picture for the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
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Composer Burt Bacharach extends his arms to thank the Motion Picture Academy after winning Oscar for Best Original Score for a motion picture (not a musical) at annual Academy Awards at Los Angeles Music Center on April 7, 1970 in Hollywood. Award was for the score of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Right is Barbara McNair one of the presenters of the award.
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Composer Burt Bacharach appears during an interview in Los Angeles on July 9, 1979.
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Song writer Carol Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach harmonize at the piano at Manhattan's Sam Goody record store on Friday, April 25, 1981 in New York.
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Burt Bacharach, from left, appears with Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen, winners of the Oscar for best original song "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" at the 54th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 29, 1982.
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Songwriter Bacharach embraces singer Dolly Parton on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1984 at the Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, California. The two were attending a fundraising event for the Neil Bogart Memorial Laboratory for childrens' cancer research.
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From left to right seated are; Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder and Elizabeth Taylor. Top standing left to right are; Clive Davis, Gladys Knight, Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach. They are shown in California, Jan. 28, 1986.
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Songwriter Burt Bacharach arrives with his wife, Carol Bayer Sager, at the third annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards ceremony on May 28, 1986.
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Burt Bacharach receives a kiss from his wife, Carole Bayer Sager after the two were honored with a song-of-the-year Grammy Award for the hit "That's What Friends Are For" on Feb. 25, 1987 in Los Angeles. The song that helped raise $750,000 for AIDS research garnered two awards, the second given for best group pop performance and shared by Dionne Warwick.
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FILE - Actor Jack Nicholson, left, congratulates Academy Award-winner composer Burt Bacharach in the winner's circle after Bacharach's horse Soul of the Matter won the San Felipe Stakes horse race at Santa Anita on March 20, 1994, in Arcadia. Calif. Not all of Bacharach's hits were on the charts. The songwriter and pianist scored at the racetrack, too.
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Burt Bacharach, left, and Elvis Costello hold their awards for best pop collaboration with vocals with "I Still Have That Other Girl" during the 41st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 1999.
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Burt Bacharach poses with the award for best pop instrumental album for "At This Time" at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles.
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Orchestral conductor Burt Bacharach and his wife Jane are all smiles at Lacco Ameno di Ischia, near Naples, Italy, Thursday, July 13, 2006, during the fourth edition of the "Ischia Global Film & Music Fest" in which Bacharach received the International Academy Ischia Art award.
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U.S. pianist, composer and music producer Burt Bacharach performs during a concert at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy, Wedneday, July 6, 2011.
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President Barack Obama applauds after presenting songwriter Burt Bacharach with a 2012 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in the East Room of the White House on May 9, 2012, in Washington.

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