2009/02/06

BURT BACHARACH STRIPS DOWN TO TALK ROBBIE WILLIAMS, MONEY AND MARRIAGE

Our correspondent encounters the master of smooth listening Burt Bacharach oiling himself by his Los Angeles swimming pool

Burt Bacharach is naked. Or rather, he is very nearly naked. And as hard as I’m trying to ignore this fact, it is proving to be extremely difficult.
I could simply tell you, for example, that the 80-year-old songwriter — arguably the most successful who has ever lived — is sitting by the pool of his $8 million home in Pacific Palisades, a clifftop suburb of Los Angeles.

(2009 Feb 6 / The Times)
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5669794.ece