Burt Bacharach dies at 94. The legendary composer created hits for Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin and more.
"Wishin’ and Hopin’,""A House is Not a Home" and"That’s What Friends Are For," died Wednesday. He was 94.Born May 12, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri, Bacharach began playing piano at his mother's insistence. His love for music grew, however, while he was a teen living in Queens, New York, where he had access to the nightclubs where jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker performed.
“I knew I was doing things different but at the same time I was doing things that were very natural for me,” he told PopEntertainment.com in 2006. “I wasn’t trying to break any rules. But I wrote the way I heard things.” , including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He even expanded his legacy to a new generation with a cameo in the film"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," an appearance on"American Idol" in 2006, and collaborations with artists like Dr. Dre, Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright.
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