Burt Bacharach: an astonishing creator of impermeable classics and supersmooth pop | Music

Let’s dance … Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach recording in 1964.

With the arrival of rock’n’roll, pop music divided, broadly speaking, into two categories. There was music aimed squarely at the recently discovered teenager that frequently seemed to have the specific intention of alienating their forebears. […]