Burt Bacharach in conversation with Carole Bayer Sager at Live Talks Los Angeles
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- Burt Bacharach in conversation with Carole Bayer Sager at Live Talks Los Angeles discussing his memoir, "Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music". This video is from an event in 2013.
Video from a Live Talks Los Angeles event featuring Burt Bacharach in conversation with Carole Bayer Sager discussing his memoir, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music.
Burt Bacharach is a classically trained pianist whose songs and compositions have been recorded by the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Over the past six decades, his legendary songwriting has touched millions of devoted listeners all over the world. He has written more than seventy Top 40 hits and won three Academy Awards, eight Grammys (including one for lifetime achievement), and an Emmy, was nominated for a Tony, and received the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. “What the World Needs Now is Love,” Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, “That’s What Friends are For” and “Walk on By” are just a handful of his hits.
In his memoir, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Bacharach steps out from behind the music to give an honest, engaging look at his life-from a childhood in Forest Hills, New York, where he first fell in love with music after seeing Dizzy Gillespie perform to his work with Hal David, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Diamond, and many others to his tumultuous marriages and the tragic suicide of his daughter. His memoir is the story of a man who has always expressed his deepest feelings through his music. His memoir offers a candid backstage look at show business as well as the personal struggles of an artist whose incredible body of work has earned him a unique position in the American cultural landscape. Visit his website.
Carole Bayer Sager’s songbook spans 40 years, and contains some of the period’s most popular and successful songs. From the Grammy-winning “That’s What Friends Are For,” the Oscar-winning “Arthur’s Theme,” and the Oscar-nominated/Golden Globe winning “The Prayer,” Carole’s songs have become pop standards.
Honors for her work also include a Tony Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Songwriter’s Hall of Fame induction and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the New York University Alumni Association.
One of the most prolific and poignant writers in pop history, Carole began her songwriting career while in high school. She wrote her first #1 hit, “A Groovy Kind of Love,” for the British group The Mindbenders in 1966. Phil Collins re-recorded it and took it to #1, and it was the most performed radio hit of 1990.In the 70s, Carole’s partnership with Burt Bacharach was fruitful, both professionally and personally. As husband and wife, they were one of songwriting’s most successful teams. They contributed the proceeds of “That’s What Friends are For” to AIDS research, more than $3 million to date.
In addition to her philanthropic work, Carole began painting in 2006, and what began as a hobby has become a full-time passion.
Made the most beautiful songs anyone could imagine. Amazing human being.
And he definitely did NOT need to sing them.....
Burt Freeman Bacharach - Gone but never forgotten!
The incomparable and iconic composer of the 20th century.
Born: May 12, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died: February 08, 2023, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education: McGill University, Mannes School of Music, Music Academy of the West.
God Bless you Burt. May all the angels in heaven sing for you!!
He moved to NY as a toddler raised in Queens NY Forest Hills HS
Worked the Brill Bldg He was a New Yorker end of story but thankfully we have his wonderful music more is being released soon with more recent collabarator Elvis Costello
RIP 🙏 Legend ❤️ 🎉
Greatest living composer everyday for over 50 years.
Agreed… the man is a pure genuis and great person
Not anymore ☹️
@@ThisIsMinTech the music will live on.
@@ThisIsMinTech mas a obra dele responde por si só. Não teve um único compositor que chegou perto de sua genialidade.
This man is truly an American treasure.
Kennedy Center honors have excluded so many legendary, talented persons. Burt Bacharach should have been given this honor long, long ago.
Rest in paradise Mr. Bacharach!!!!! You were seemingly a sweet spirited, genuine person, with a beautiful warm, sincere, heartfelt smile!!!!!!!! You are indelibly etched in our hearts, with the wonderful gifts that you have bestowed upon the music industry!!!!! Thank you, Burt Bacharach, you were a phenomenal composer, a Blessing to the art of music!!!!!
Beautifully said.
What makes you think he's resting in paradise?
@@JoeDoe2 Who questions someone they don't even know??????
@@annalaw4684 Someone who's read his autobiography and knows better. Who makes statements about where they think a dead person is with no facts on which to base that statement? Lot's of people, unfortunately. And they need to stop misleading the world.
I’m 70 years old, so I grew up listening to Burt’s music. I must know every word to every song. Love his music so much! ❤
"Keep the horse in the stable; don't run him in the race ... that way you don't lose" ... what a great metaphor for the 'deficiency' he is trying to describe. What a guy! ... what a life!
Thank you Sir for all those wonderful compositions. It influenced my life and happiness. You created world heritage. Thank you, bless you and Rest in Peace.
Thanks Burt (R.I.P.) My life wouldn't have been the same without your contributions to the soundtrack.
A composer like no other!
I love the song One Less Bell To Answer.
A composer that brings forth the deepest most profound emotions in a person. A very rare gift. Burt himself is a very sensitive soul, which produces a person that writes this kind of music. There will never be another like him.♥️♥️
What an incredible interview with two very brave, honest and deeply talented people. How moving and meaningful this was. I am speechless. Thank you
Rest in peace in God’s loving embrace Mr. Burt Bacharach.🙏🙏
I love the song I’ll Never Fall In Love Again.
Blessings on your journey Burt ❤️🙏👋
I have watched this so many times. It's just the best interview! Thank you Miss Carole, you are the very best!❤️
What a class act Carol is
I love the song On My Own.
This is a wonderful interview, brutally honest and so intimate. Everyone who is a fan should watch this. It gives a very poignant insight into this man, his talent and his life. RIP, Mr Bacharach. Go be with Nikki b/c she is all better now.
❤ Burt is amazingly healthy and young strong for his years. Looks fantastic ❤ I was so pleased to Meet Burt at his last Melbourne Australia concert he spoke with a group of us from the show’s audience.. he was a delight a wonderful person. ❤ Burt’s concert was the best concert and I’ve been to them all Rod steward , Queen , Elton John , Bon Jovi and more all great but Burt was exceptional a real class act. 👏🏻
This interview was in 2013.
Two people that wrote songs that have become the soundtrack of our lives
I love the song What The World Needs Now.
Wikipedia says that he is 94 years old now in 2022. They really should get on it and give this man a Kennedy Center award while he's still alive. I can still sing the words to many of his songs, and we played so many of these songs in the high school band. His music was so much apart of the generations coming of age in the 60s, 70s and even 80s. I really enjoyed the play, Beautiful, about Carole King's life and music. A playwright should write a play about BB's life, music and legacy.
Wonderful intimate interview between two people who still cared very much for each other. Rest In Peace Mr. Bacharach.
Absolutely 💯!!! Kennedy Center honors for Burt AND you Carole!!👏👏 🎼🎵🎼🎵
Burt deserves so much
Burt is the Greatest.
I read both your books. God bless.
RIP Burt😭🙏🙏
A long life well lived
You gave us many wonderful songs which are timeless
😢🤩🤩👍 😀😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🙏🙏
So honest and humble in later life lessons. Truly gifted, Burt and team were once in a lifetime collaboration.
@@jannichi6431 I was born in 1965 and still ❤️everything about the decade today from fashion, films, counterculture and the music.
If asked what is my favourite Burt song I would reply all of them. However I would have to put ‘Alfie’ up there.👍 👍 ♥️🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧
I love the song Turn On Your Heart Light by Neil Diamond.
Thank you for an insightful and beautiful discussion. We can learn so much from one another's journey.
I have always been respected by this man!
This is memorable priceless
I love that song Turn On Your Heart Light.
Burt is an absolute genius in the song-writing world. The very first record I bought (78 rpm) at the age of twelve was "The Story of My Life". It was a hit in the USA and the UK in 1957/8. Only today did I find out that Burt wrote it!
My favorite Carpenters song is Close To You.
Happy 75th Birthday Carole
This was BEAUTIFUL
The greatest trifecta: Bacharach - David - Warwick
What an interesting Man!
Musical genius! RIP
Burt was Beautiful 😍
You are 💯 right
I got a chance to meet Burt back in the 70’s, and I remember him talking so passionately about performing live in front of an audience. That’s what he enjoyed doing the most.
his like will never be achieved again... US entertainment industry peaked probably 20 yrs ago, of which he probably helped build it's quality and beauty.. end of an era
I was fortunate to see Burt & Dionne Warwick at Caezar’s in the early 90’s & again in Rancho Mirage Agua Caliente Jan 2018.
I met both of you in my teens once through Nikki (Switch) She was a beautiful girl..
there is an updated youtube video under....a singer named Trijinte Oosterhuis....that has just sang some new songs that Burt has recorded...Its listed here on youtube ...(Trijinte Oosterhuis & Burt Bacharach 'Everchanging Times') it is amazing and current...
Yes her rendition of Bacharach songs is outstanding. A revelation.
Burt and Carole's music is amazing. I very much admire both their talents. I do think Carole was inappropriate during this interview in many ways. I understand they were married and share a history but the commentary about Angie Dickinson relating to her daughter is not appropriate in a public forum. And as a side note NO ONE does I'll Never Fall In Love Again as good as Dionne.
AMERICAN TREASURE sorely missed 😢
All these horse references are because Burt used to own race horses in his youth he also owned restaurants and hotels in NY his hometown and mine 🙏❤️🎉 Legend Genius RIP
Thank you for small world testimony 🙏💟Horse people are so wise...special folks.🐴🐎
@@jannichi6431 He had some winners too giddy up 🐴🐎 Enjoying his beautiful music and Hal's wonderful lyrics on Valentine's Week ❤️🎉❤️
He was born in Missouri.
@@kathrynmcmorrow7170 He moved to NY as very young toddler grew up and raised in NY went to lived in Forest Hills Queens NY went to Forest Hills High School
I know he was born in Kansas City Missouri thats it He was a New Yorker just born in KC
Just heard this morning he passed away.
The burden of a perfectionist/genius. The burden of parenting. Two top line human beings, two ingenious artists!
he was right about the Richard Chamberlain version of Close to You, no harmony, sounded like chopsticks with words! Burt’s contribution to the American song list is immeasurable! What a great artist!
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Brenda Dillon
Do you mean Richard carpenter?
@@marilynmoney2771 no it was Richard Chamberlain! …you tube evidence…
He should have said that he needs her. Needing her now is something she could use!
God has a plan for us we just don’t know what it is.
Didn't he cheat on her and started seeing the young blond who he's married to now? Did Carole Bayer Sager get recognized for the songs she wrote?????????
About a twenty year gap between relationships. I think he did with the other marriages though. If you are a fella, surrounded by gorgeous women throwing themselves at you, it would certainly be a challenge to avoid trouble.
What do you mean? Carol got credited for the songs they wrote together. Just like Hal David did.
Sager is well respected for her work. I’d say yes.
And she shared the Oscar with him for Arthur's Theme. Watch the clip of them winning it. It's hilarious.
@@frankcheers7529 Peter Allen got a credit for coining the phrase, "From the moon to New York City."
These are song writers. Virtually extinct craft today.
Don't you love it when modern-day "artists" who don't know the difference between a coda and a quarter note proclaim that they "wrote" a song? Most can't even read music, much less put it down on manuscript. A dying art for certain.
He’s never won the Kennedy Center award!?
sad.....he deserved to though!!!
A travesty.
@@Ljacksmith An absolute disgrace ! 😡
Wikipedia says that he is 94 years old now in 2022. They really should get on it and give this man a Kennedy Center award while he's still alive. I can still sing the words to many of his songs, and we played so many of these songs in the high school band. His music was so much apart of the generations coming of age in the 60s, 70s and even 80s. I really enjoyed the play, Beautiful, about Carole King's life and music. A playwright should write a play about BB's life, music and legacy
Outrageous!!!!!!!!
You can tell he was having some health issues during this interview with the blood pooling under his skin in his cheeks. He is now playing for the angels!
The And I fits nicely
He treated her terrible when they were married.
it seems that she has gotten over that, as evidenced by this interview.
@@kimbozw1808A woman of immense grace.
@@31Alden Seems more like butt kissing to me. Cringe.
I really like Burt Bacharach but I'm reading the book I think I'm on the 4th chapter so far but it's written in such a tacky way, whoever was his assistant writer// Ghost writer did a Bad job, It just doesn't sound like it's written by a person with very much couth, I think he really got the wrong Ghost writer and the way the public views him is different than how the book is written, I feel sad for the outcome of the book.
I don't think it's tacky, but the book is superficial and lacks depth. Some chapters just seem to be a synopsis of his accomplishments rather than talking about feelings, motivations and growth. Or, maybe my expectations are just too high.
Reading this book made me dislike him intensely…..
A genius without a doubt but like so many perhaps tortured.
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The greatest broad spectrum songwriter ever, hands down! More than Irving Berlin & Lennon & McCartney... well... maybe they're equal to Bacharach!?
People who commit suicide are in deep despair.
Great music, great arranger but a sorry ass self focused man. I have been listening to his interviews from the early years and he speaks little of Hal David, his biggest collaborator, the man who put legs on his music. Both Hal and Burt did an NPR interview with Terri Gross in 2010 and Hal could hardly get a word in. His exwife and collaborator, Carol, with whom he is speaking here put out a book a fews later exposing his character terribly. I guess his book wasn't as thorough as she claimed.
Eunice David, Hal's second wife and widow did a little forum a few years ago and she spoke of Burt in the EARLY years, quietly accepting credit for the lyrics to his music when never wrote a word. He was never to correct the interviewer and give credit to Hal. The truth be told that's part reason for the spilt.
Great music all the same. Peace to the family.
It is much harder to create a great melody than great lyrics. Yes, Hal David was superb, but without Burt Bacharach's melodies, no sale. Bacharach is simply being candid rather than falsely modest. Besides, it is the music that matters, not the personality.
Geniuses are normally difficult, often self-centered personalities.
In Bacharach's memoirs, upon which this talk was based, the author repeatedly asserts the brilliance of Hal David's lyrics and the importance of their relationship. Bacharach admits he would have been nothing without his partner.
Plus, guess what: people change! They can grow quite a bit over the course of 90 years!! As evidenced by his book, Mr. Bacharach took full responsibility for his shortcomings, regrets the way he treated others when he was younger, and has mended his broken relationships universally. Pretty mature.
Um compositor como ele e todos os outros sabem muito bem que a música não precisa de letra. O que vc gosta é o que vc ouve, a MELODIA. Hal, claro, teve a sua importância, mas o que todos amam sempre, É A MELODIA e isso, meu carro, ele foi mestre.
He tortured her in thier marriage
Angie too
I find it absolutely incredible that she could be an interviewer in this venue. And maintain a level of class and decorum.
His music revealed the best part of him. From all accounts, his treatment of marriage partners was less than respectful .
@@beasleybrother1 It's just a way for her to get narcissistic supply and stay relevant.
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Lionel Richie sure has made up for his brief break. May be a wise plan in midlife? Horse people are very special🐎Queen Elizabeth too.
She admitted she was attracted to his looks. He's admitted that he can't 'behave' when married. His 4th wife, who looks young enough to be his great granddaughter, must have married him for money. Without money, he's just a really old guy who used to write good songs and cheat a lot. Women overlook a lot when you're loaded like he was.
I read somewhere that she was asking for prayers to her and her family. I mean...she was 32 yrs old when she married and he was 64. Did she not think that someday he would die since he was so much older than her? Since she is 32 yrs younger than he was, I am sure it was for the money.and prestige and may be replace her own father as looking up to a daddy syndrome here since his age could have made him a father figure to her. He did hurt a lot of women along the way...as he had affairs going on when married to Angie and Carol. Anyone who has become famous forgets who they really are as a person before they won the accolades and do all kinds of stupid things along the way. I am sure his widow has nothing to worry about financially for the rest of her life at 62.
This interview seems really inappropriate. Like it should be a private conversation.
Everything they discussed he already shared in his book. An honest reflection on life in a respectful and transparent way. Something the current generation seems incapable of doing. RIP Mr. Bacharach. Thanks for sharing your music and your life. You ended well, something we all wish we could say.
What year was this
This video is from an event in 2013.
I think Streisand does the best version of "Alfie" as well as One Less Bell to Answer/A House is Not a Home. She also sang recently for a CD "Be Aware" another Burt Bacharach song that I don't think too may people have heard of, but claims he wrote it for her to sing it. ua-cam.com/video/ES-mkkRiq34/v-deo.html
listen to her sing "close to you" w burt in a TV special.
I read the book and it's laced with the most vile profanity. People need to accept the will of Jesus and do their best to live lives that are pleasing to him. A true believe knows this. So what was the thing that "even non-believers can believe in?" (Alfie) Whatever it was, it doesn't matter now. It doesn't profit a man to gain all that wealth and lose his own soul.
Christians are the most profane people. Signed, a Preacher's Kid.
@@kevingoins9858 I think you meant Protestants and Apostates
Hi Burt.i miss you.i was very honored to be your friend.
How is it possible that this man didn't get a Kennedy center honor?
Compared to some of the selections, they are not a pimple on this mans butt, in terms of talent, relevance, contributions, production, success and ability.
His discography and catalog are unequaled.
There has to be some political or assanine reason why he was excluded.
What a shame.
Yes! It is a shame. So many great songs.
I don't get it or understand that HUGE oversight either!
That's basically an award for radical left-wing liberal Democrats anyway
The Alfie song must have been autobiographical
Hal David his lyricist partner wrote the words to Alfie for the film starring Michael Caine
Burt has stated Alfie is his favorite lyric and song he and Hal wrote together
Excellent choice 🎉💙 mine too
@@margaret513 So it was biographical (but not autobiographical).
@@ericjohn5484 I guess so a lot of people can relate to it....
A musical genius like that is a complicated personality as a husband and Dad ...I just adored him his music his personality and of course his gorgeous looks since a young girl ( I was born 💜mid 60's ) so many memories attached his music and my life.
I read his autobiography and he was very very honest about where he thought he failed .Low key humble quiet man perfectionist too
Plus he was a Taurus ♉ which I always seem to love the male ones 💜🙏😎