Something Big: The Complete A&M Years...And More

by Burt Bacharach

Unknown Binding

First published January 23, 2007

About the author

Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, singer, six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner. Most of Bacharach’s hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick. Bacharach also wrote hits for Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B.J. Thomas, and The Carpenters.

Bacharach had been married four times. Bacharach married his last wife, Jane Hansen, in 1993; they had two children, a son, Oliver, and a daughter, Raleigh. He also had an adopted son, Cristopher with ex-wife and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. He lived in Brookville, New York.