Burt Bacharach in Hal David sta 21. 5. 2012 prejela The
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize. Nagrado za posebne dosežke na
področju popularne glasbe.
Čestitam.
Prilagam še koncert iz Bele hiše ob slovesni podelitvi.
Prilagam še koncert iz Bele hiše ob slovesni podelitvi.
HARPER ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF MEMOIR BY LEGENDARY SONG WRITER BURT BACHARACH
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Burt Bacharach’s life story,
ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART. Written with Robert Greenfield and told in
Bacharach’s own words, the book will recount the life and times of a
true American icon who has composed many of the most important popular
songs of the last century. The deal was negotiated by Jonathan Burnham,
Senior VP, Publisher, Harper and Claire Wachtel, Executive Editor,
Harper with Amy Schiffman and Brian Lipson from Intellectual Property
Group. The book is tentatively scheduled for publication in November
2012.
Jonathan Burnham says, “Burt Bacharach is one of the icons of the
American songbook, up there with the greats, and his life story
encompasses many different eras of popular music. His story will give
fascinating insight into a complex life and a rich legacy of
extraordinary songs.”
Over the course of his long and astonishing career, Bacharach has had
seventy Top Forty hits, won three Academy Awards, eight Grammys
(including the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy, and been
nominated for a Tony Award. Along with his longtime songwriting partner
Hal David, Bacharach was recently named the winner of the prestigious
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, an award previously
given to Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney.
Bacharach’s songs have been recorded by countless artists, Elvis Presley
and The Beatles among them. For three years, Bacharach toured the world
as the musical arranger and conductor for the legendary Marlene
Dietrich. Bacharach has composed some of the most memorable film scores
of all time; written music for the Broadway stage; produced a variety of
artists of every generation in the studio, and continues to appear as a
solo performer in concerts all over the world.
While the list of his accomplishments is overwhelming, Bacharach has
also led a particularly American life that contains all the storybook
elements of a great Hollywood movie. Having written countless songs
about the never ending search for love and the heartbreak that comes
when it is lost, Bacharach’s first three marriages to singer Paula
Stewart, actress Angie Dickinson, and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager
ended in divorce. His long running partnership with Hal David fell apart
after they wrote the sound track for a movie that was such an artistic
and commercial disaster that the two men wound up suing one another and
did not speak for seventeen years. Bacharach’s daughter Nikki committed
suicide at the age of forty.
Throughout it all, Bacharach has steadfastly continued to pursue his
muse. As powerful and moving as Burt Bacharach’s most unforgettable
songs, ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART will provide readers with a backstage pass
to a world of show business that no longer exists. It will also give
them an up close and personal look at the life of an artist whose
incredible body of work has earned him a unique position in the American
cultural landscape while also providing the sound track for the lives
of millions of devoted fans all over the world.
About Robert Greenfield
An award-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter,
Robert Greenfield is the author of ten books, among them the classic
STP: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones. His novel
Temple, which won the National Jewish Book Award and was a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year, and Timothy Leary: A Biography, which he
spent ten years researching and writing, were both favorably reviewed
on the front page of the New York Sunday Times Book Review. The Last
Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun, the authorized biography of
the legendary founder of Atlantic Records, was published by Simon &
Schuster in November, 2011.
