All pop songs should be as good as those written by Burt Bacharach, who died yesterday. He was never in fashion (who else in the music business is called Burt?), but never out out fashion either. He wrote most of Dionne Warwick’s hits, including the heartbreaking Walk on By, and provided Aretha Franklin with her biggest UK hit, I Say a Little Prayer. I love this lyric from Do You Know the Way to San Jose: the American dream going sour in the space of six lines.
LA is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas.
Licensed today: adjacent betting shops in Boston, Lincolnshire…
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