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Counterpunch
byOne of the last of the great Brill Building pop-song craftsmen has passed on. In fact, Bacharach himself good-naturedly co-conspired in the misplaced snobbery that caricatures him as a Liberace-like lightweight with his 1997 cameo appearance in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Yet even Bacharach’s lightest confections were often technical marvels, with frequently surprising chord changes, tonal colorations, and complex and shifting time signatures. That’s the way I felt it.”Frank Zappa said of Bacharach’s work, “I really enjoyed the early compositions of David and Bacharach. But he makes it all sound so natural you can’t get it out of your head or stop whistling it.
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