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Burt Bacharach wrote the soundtrack of our lives

A man listens while sitting in a studio by a piano
Burt Bacharach listens while jazz pianist Marian McPartland (not pictured) plays a tune on the piano in 2004.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Burt Bacharach, who died Wednesday at 94, is a name that “is a synonym for pop-music success in the 1960s,” wrote Leonard Feather, The Times’ former jazz critic. Here is a sample of the Los Angeles Times’ more recent coverage of Bacharach.

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