![]() But he was a super-nice guy - seemed really cool and humble. He was very methodical: “Let’s go to this part again.” I have no attention span, so I remember that being hard for me. I went up to his place three or four times. ![]() I remember I was so nervous because I was gonna be in the room with one of my idols. The song we wrote together was called “ Heartbreak of Love,” which Dionne Warwick did with June Pointer. ![]() But in 1987 I wrote a song with him and Carole Bayer Sager, with whom he also wrote some classic, brilliant songs. I can remember when I was little, from my earliest memory, those songs just seeped into my life: “ Close to You.” “ Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.” “ This Guy’s in Love With You.” It starts with those melodies, which were unlike anything else you’d ever heard, with the unusual time signatures and the unique harmonic choices. Here, she remembers the life and work of her fellow songwriter Burt Bacharach, who died Wednesday at age 94.īurt Bacharach created something that didn’t exist before him - a musical language that was all his own. ![]() Diane Warren is the prolific songwriter behind such pop smashes as Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me,” Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live” and Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” A member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, she’s been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards and 14 Oscars - including a nod for original song at next month’s 95th Academy Awards with “Applause,” from “Tell It Like a Woman” - and been named ASCAP’s songwriter of the year six times. ![]()
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