{"id":8284,"date":"2023-02-08T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2023-02-10T23:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:31:47","slug":"music-rip-burt-bacharach-1928-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8284","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: RIP Burt Bacharach, 1928-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"597\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6545.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6545.jpg 597w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6545-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6545-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Burt Bacharach passed away at the ripe old age of 94 today. What a legend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s one of my own personal favourites from his extensive and illustrious catalogue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8y5OhmoAKdo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Alfie to What The World Needs Now, his body of work is incredible. I adore the string of albums under his own name, from the later \u201860s and the 1970s, with his own orchestra, and Burt at the piano, singing his own tunes (lyrics by Hal David, of course!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6562.jpg 675w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6562-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Burt Freeman Bacharach, 1972.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burt Bacharach passed away at the ripe old age of 94 today. What a legend! Here\u2019s one of my own personal favourites from his extensive and illustrious catalogue: From Alfie to What The World Needs Now, his body of work is incredible. I adore the string of albums under his own name, from the later &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: RIP Burt Bacharach, 1928-2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,130,77,114,113,139],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-29C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}