Burt Bacharach Net Worth

Burt Bacharach's Quotes

• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
• The groovy thing about pop music is that it's wide open. Anything can happen.
• It's hard to be married to someone in the business. Carole Bayer Sager and I wrote some really good songs - we had three No 1 hits together. But I think you have to be grown-up, and I don't think I've been particularly grown-up in some of these marriages that I've had.
• Elvis Costello is a good guy. He is very intense. When we were working on 'Painted from Memory,' I could always bet that at 2.30am, if I was up and thinking about something, then he'd be up and thinking about the same thing, too.
• I've written some really bad songs, which you'll never hear. An example? 'Underneath the Overpass.'

Interesting Facts about Burt Bacharach

1. Born at 1:10am-CDT
2. Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award, in 2001.
3. Filed suit for $15M against an Indianapolis theatre, where he claims to have fallen and broken his shoulder on an uneven floor. [March 2001]
4. Was a former accompanist for Marlene Dietrich.
5. Was nominated for Broadway's 1969 Tony Award for his music and lyrics as part of a Best Musical nomination for "Promises! Promises!"
6. Has a son, Christopher, with Carole Bayer Sager who lives with Sager and her husband Robert Daly in Los Angeles.
7. His daughter, (with Angie Dickinson), Nikki Bacharach, died on January 4, 2007 at age 40 of suicide in Ventura County, California. Nikki suffered from Asperger's Disorder, a form of autism.
8. Has received 6 Grammy Awards since 1967, most notably for "Song Of The Year" in 1986 ("That's What Friends Are For", performed by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder).
9. Is mentioned in Status Quo's song "Diggin' Burt Bachrach".
10. Owned a successful racehorse, Soul of Matter, winning a one million dollar prize race in 1995.
11. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
12. Counts "Alfie" (lyrics by Hal David) as his personal favorite of all the songs he has written.
13. Bacharach's chart-topping song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (sung by B.J. Thomas) was used in the British TV commercial for "Walkers" crisps featuring Gary Lineker and Cat Deeley in the bicycling roles originated by Paul Newman and Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). [2009]
14. As a VIP guest of President Barack Obama at the White House, Bacharach and lyricist Hal David were presented with the Library of Congress "Gershwin Prize for Popular Song" trophy. Bacharach had just celebrated his 84th birthday. Among the various artists commemorating the duo's lifelong achievement with personal renditions of Bacharach/David songs were: Mike Myers ("What's New, Pussycat?"), Sheryl Crow and Lyle Lovett ("I'll Never Fall in Love Again"), Rumer ("A House is Not a Home"), Stevie Wonder ("Alfie"). To close the evening, Wonder introduced the President who finally presented the trophy plaques to Burt and Eunice David (accepting on behalf of husband Hal) [East Room - White House]. [May 2012]
15. He worked with Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen and Ursula Andress on both What's New Pussycat (1965) and Casino Royale (1967).
16. Is the son of well-known syndicated columnist, Mark Bertram Bert Bacharach (1898-1983), whose work, under the title "Now Hear Bert", was a regular feature in our local newspaper, the Chicago American.
17. Son of syndicated columnist Bert Bacharach and Irma Bacharach.
18. Graduated in 1946 from Forest Hills High School in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.