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Burt Bacharach and the Invention of Modern Cosmopolitan Pop

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, March 2020

GENERALLY, SONGWRITERS who aren't also performers don't become celebrities. They don't get to host television specials, or appear in commercials alongside their glamorous wives, or wind up on People magazine's list of sexiest guys.

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