The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Greetings I found a nice story on BB on this site:

http://www.topictracker.org/

And I would like to know more about " BBC-TV focused on Bacharach in a January 1996 documentary",, please help me out.

Respect.

I read this before, but can anyone confirm (citing the source)?

"he studied cello, drums, and piano as a child" (from the site mentioned in this thread)

From Newsweek magazine, June 22, 1970

The Music Man 1970 by Hubert Saal:

At the last Westbury concert, Bacharach, exceptionally close to his parents, introduced his mother and walked over and kissed her. She was responsible for his taking piano lessons. It was lucky because he also tried drumming. "I couldn’t keep time to the radio," he says of those days growing up in Forest Hills, N.Y., where he was the smallest boy in high school. "I was also a cellist," he says. "It was a rented cello. They even gave me a bow. The whole outfit."

The entire article is available here.

Thanks a lot. I never thought it was true before.

I think that the BBC-TV documentary is titled "This Is Now" which aired on the 1st January 1996 and ran for 50 minutes.

Alistair