As part of his regular “How I Write” feature, Noah Charney interviewed Burt Bacharach yesterday in the Daily Beast.
Was there a specific moment when you felt you had “made it” as a songwriter?
Maybe when Miles Davis said to me, “Hey man, ‘Alfie,’ that’s a very good song.” If Miles Davis said to me that I’d written a great song, maybe all was well in the world.
To see the entire interview, visit the Daily Beast.