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Fantastic rendition.

Sorry, my bad: I messed it up. "Band on The Run" was released in 1973 while "Together" in 1979.

Everybody steals, so they say. But the original is much better.

The best ballads Bacharach wrote with Anka were "I don't need you you anymore", "Find love" and "I've got my mind made up", included in the soundtrack "Together?". The movie bombed, comdenning Bacharach's sumptuous score, which comprises instrumental compositi...

This discussion evoked an important cultural divide, which is the distinction between “high” art and “low” art. Generally high art refers to museum paintings, most classical music and most poetry, for instance paradigmatic and well-known artistic cases as the works of Cézanne, “Hamlet”, “The Waste L...

Regarding Holden's remark on the Beatles (of which I was unaware), the critic certainly showed incredibly poor judgment, which casts a shadow on his judgment on Bacharach too. Or maybe Holden was just trying to èpater les bourgeois.

Stephen Holden: "He's always been underrated... He's kind of like the 60's Cole Porter, if you can imagine Cole Porter with a beat and a lot of syncopation... His music is on the level of Lennon and Mc Cartney". Enough said.

Great inteview. Sorry if it's been posted here before.

I just loved it. Thank you.

Here's the complete extract: “From here” (the song 'Pump it up') “he” (Costello) “went on to play chamber music, write songs with Burt Bacharach, do country records, cover records, soul records, ballet and orchestral music. When you're writing songs with Burt Bacharach, you obviously don't give a fu...

After all Dylan himself wrote a song with Carol Bager Sayer. He obviously didn't give a fuck to what people thought at the time

This is from splicetoday: "His (Dylan's) fairly inscrutable examination of Elvis Costello’s 1978 “Pump It Up,” is at first a critical look—“The song has a lot of defects, but it knows how to conceal them all”—but then considering Costello’s body of work, compliments him. “When you are writing s...

The best among his latest. I just love it.