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May 22, 2013 · Bacharach was referring to the painful decision to send her away to a special school. He feels he made the decision because Nikki was not properly diagnosed.
Jul 12, 2015 · Not all of his relationships were happy however, and Bacharach has been divorced three times. In an interview with The Telegraph, Bacharach has spoken candidly about his past.
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May 22, 2013 · The Inquisitor reports the 84-year-old musician explained his struggles dealing with the premature birth of his daughter Nikki, her life as a misdiagnosed patient with Asperger’s Syndrome and ...
May 22, 2013 · Bacharach was referring to the painful decision to send her away to a special school. He feels he made the decision because Nikki was not properly diagnosed.
- Hal and The Hit Factory
- Dicing with Dietrich
- Discovering Dionne
- Jealousy and Voodoo
- Swinging London, 1965
- Losing Nikki
When I first met Hal David, I was 27, single and living with my dog Stewba in a nice apartment with a tiny terrace overlooking Bloomingdale’s at 166 East 61st Street. Hal was 35, married and living in Roslyn, Long Island. I had a little office in the Brill Building, at 1619 Broadway. Everybody you needed to know in the music business was in that bu...
I met Marlene Dietrich in 1956 after I had been recommended as a possible accompanist. I went over to see her at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Marlene was 56 years old at the time, but she was still beautiful and as famous as ever. When we started to work together at the piano, she said, ‘Do you write?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m trying to be a songwriter.’ She...
Even during the period when I was spending a lot of time out on the road with Marlene, I would always come back to New York as soon as the tour was over and start writing songs again in the Brill Building with Hal David. One day, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who had written Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock for Elvis, asked me to rehearse some backgro...
Even though my relationship with Dionne was always strictly professional, she also wasn’t crazy about me being with Angie. While we were in London, the two of us went to see Dionne at the Savoy and she walked out onstage wearing a blonde wig and I thought, ‘What the f***?’ I was speechless. The way Dionne felt about Angie was nothing compared to wh...
By the time Angie and I met, I was really getting somewhere. At a time when no one under the age of 25 wanted to listen to the music their parents liked, the songs Hal David and I were writing seemed to appeal to both generations. At about that time, a record label offered to put up the money for me to do an album of instrumental versions of songs ...
Angie was a smart woman, but when it came to Nikki, she was lost. She was so tied to Nikki, and Nikki was so tied to her, that I wound up leaving. I moved down to our beach house at Del Mar, near San Diego, and Angie stayed with Nikki in the big house in Los Angeles. When Nikki was 14 she decided to become a Sikh. Angie would get up with her at fou...
Mar 16, 2022 · Burt Bacharach thought sending his daughter to a psychiatric clinic would help her overcome the difficulties she faced. But after spending ten years at the institution, Nikki did not get better, and she resented her father till her death.
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Feb 9, 2023 · Burt’s second marriage came in 1965. He wed actress Angie Dickinson, 91, and the pair had one daughter Nikki.
