HarperCollins to Publish Burt Bacharach's Memoir

Posted on January 19, 2012

HarperCollins has announced plans to publish songwriter Burt Bacharach's memoir, Anyone Who Had a Heart. The book was written with Robert Greenfield. The book is tentatively scheduled for publication in November 2012.

Bacharach has had seventy Top Forty hits in his career. He has won three Academy Awards, eight Grammys, an Emmy, and been nominated for a Tony Award. Along with his longtime songwriting partner Hal David, Bacharach was recently named the winner of the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, an award previously given to Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney.

The book will provide readers with a backstage pass into show business. It will also cover Bacharach's personal life. Bacharach's first three marriages to singer Paula Stewart, actress Angie Dickinson, and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager ended in divorce. His long partnership with Hal David fell apart after they wrote the soundtrack for a film, Lost Horizon, that was such an artistic and commercial disaster that the two men wound up suing one another and did not speak for seventeen years. Bacharach's daughter Nikki committed suicide at the age of forty.