one of the best

anyone who had a heart

Very sad news; Bacharach and David, giants of pop music. When they come to write the definitive history of pop, Beatles, Motown, Spector - Bacharach and David will be up there with them.

Yes, JK.

Anyone attempting to push this craft in pop, is standing on the shoulders of Hal David.

One of the greatest ever and certainly in the very top of the very top of that list.

When I was a kid hearing my mother's Carpenters and Dionne records being played incessantly I thought the songs were for old people, as most kids would. Only later when I started making records and writing for real did I realize how great those songs were.

They hold up decades later. I will never come close.

I bow down to Hal David.

Listening to some of his lyrics today - what a craftsman. This is the kind of art we should be encouraging, teaching and praising at The Brits. Where are our industry figures when we need them? Answer - dead or castrated.