Burt Bacharach: 12 of the legendary composer's greatest songs

Burt Bacharach, who has died astatine the property of 94, volition beryllium remembered for composing immoderate of the best-loved popular songs of each time, implicit a 30-year period.

Along with lyricist Hal David, helium created hits for Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones and Dionne Warwick among galore others, arsenic good arsenic galore movie themes.

Here is simply a enactment of 12 of his classical works.

This was Bacharach's breakout hit, sung (and whistled) by US crooner Perry Como, and spent 8 weeks astatine fig 1 successful the UK successful 1958.

Its entreaty continued done to the 1980s, erstwhile it was famously chosen to advertise Quality Street sweets; the '90s, erstwhile British popular radical Erasure chopped a version; and the 2000s, erstwhile it featured successful the deed movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Released successful 1963, this became psyche fable Dionne Warwick's archetypal apical 10 azygous successful the US, breaking her into the mainstream portion helping to unbreak listeners' hearts on the way.

It was aboriginal covered successful the UK by Cilla Black, whose mentation turned retired to beryllium 1 of the biggest pistillate illustration hits successful 1960s, staying astatine fig 1 for 3 weeks.

Following Anyone Who Had A Heart, Bacharach continued to enactment with Cilla. This is thought to beryllium 1 of Bacharach's favourite songs that helium composed.

When she died successful 2015, helium said signaling it with her astatine the iconic Abbey Road Studios successful London was "a astir peculiar memory".

A young Cher reworked the way arsenic the taxable opus of the 1966 movie of the aforesaid name, starring Michael Caine, and it was besides sung, with illustration success, by Warwick.

Later covered by Aretha Franklin, this was primitively a palmy collaboration betwixt Warwick, Bacharach and David successful 1966.

It tells the communicative of a pistillate reasoning of a spouse who is connected his mode to the Vietnam War.

The rendition by Rupert Everett and his co-stars astatine the extremity of the Julia Roberts movie My Best Friend's Wedding is improbable to diagnostic connected immoderate specified lists, but was entertaining nonetheless.

Nominated for an Oscar successful 1966 for champion archetypal song, this was the taxable for the drama movie of the aforesaid sanction starring Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole.

Jones told Rolling Stone helium had mixed feelings astir the way astatine first, until its writer convinced him otherwise.

"I thought, I'm going to punch the [stuffing] retired of it connected What's New Pussycat," said Jones. "And Burt said, 'That's what I want. It's a brainsick opus for a brainsick film... I person to person a dependable of authority.'"

The Welsh vocalist added: "It's benignant of a backhanded compliment: 'I've got to person you, but this is the song.'"

Written by Bacharach, Luther Dixon and Mack David astir surrendering to the powers of emotion (despite your mates trying to pass you disconnected the idea), this was recorded and released by miss radical The Shirelles successful 1961, giving them a fig 8 deed successful the US.

The fledgling Beatles adopted the opus for their aboriginal unrecorded signifier act, implicit with the "sha-la-la-la" refrain harmonies, successful the aboriginal 60s, with John Lennon connected pb vocals doing his champion Buddy Holly impression.

It made it connected to the Fab Four's archetypal medium Please Please Me, wherever their Scouse accents are accentuated connected the "cheat cheat" informing line.

This desperately heartfelt and horn-filled break-up ballad, written by Bacharach and David, gave Dusty Springfield a fig 3 deed successful the UK successful the summertime of 1964.

It was Springfield's highest illustration positioning astatine the time, and gave British audiences 1 of the archetypal glimpses of her blue-eyed psyche delivery.

The opus was aboriginal covered by Warwick, but mightiness beryllium much acquainted to stone fans arsenic the screeching distorted guitar stomper recorded by the White Stripes connected their fig 1 4th album, Elephant.

The memorable euphony video, directed by Sofia Coppola, featured scantily-clad supermodel Kate Moss rod dancing.

Another deed for Springfield, this sensual opus - with its relaxed bossa nova bushed - featured successful the 1967 spoof James Bond movie Casino Royale, earning it a champion opus information astatine the pursuing year's Oscars.

Forty years later, different large awards ceremony, the Grammys, entered the way into its Hall of Fame.

And different husky-voiced diva, Canadian Diana Krall, saw the Look of Love done caller eyes connected her medium of the aforesaid sanction successful 2001.

One of Warwick's best-loved songs peaked astatine fig six successful the US successful 1964, giving her a 2nd planetary million-seller, pursuing Anyone Who Had A Heart.

This Grammy-nominated song, which tackles the symptom and stolen pridefulness of mislaid emotion caput on, was aboriginal recorded by Isaac Hayes.

It erstwhile ranked fig 51 connected the Rolling Stone database of the 500 Greatest Songs of All clip - the 2nd highest opus by a solo pistillate connected the list, aft Aretha Franklin's Respect.

Another heartbreak deed for Warwick, this was primitively written for the 1968 philharmonic Promises, Promises.

While the accumulation was coming together, Bacharach recovered himself successful infirmary with pneumonia, which inspired his songwriting spouse David to travel up with the catchy line: "What bash you get erstwhile you buss a girl?/You get capable germs to drawback pneumonia/After you do, she'll ne'er telephone you."

Once helium was backmost astatine his soft with the lyrics, Bacharach erstwhile said, helium wrote the melody "faster than I had ever written immoderate opus successful my life".

In the movie Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me, Elvis Costello serenaded Mike Myers and Heather Graham with his mentation arsenic they suggestively dilatory danced successful comic fashion.

Originally intended for a pistillate singer, this ode to unrequited emotion was recorded by UK vocalist Danny Williams, earlier the definitive mentation was recorded by trumpet subordinate Herb Alpert.

In 1996 astatine London's London Royal Festival Hall, Noel Gallagher sang a version, accompanied by Bacharach connected piano, which was aboriginal aired connected BBC Radio 2.

The Oasis guitarist and songwriter had earlier, subtly, placed a representation of Bacharach, 1 of his songwriting heroes, connected the screen of his band's debut medium Definitely Maybe.

We've saved the champion Bacharach track, according to Spotify's algorithm, for last. The 1965 tune was archetypal made fashionable by Jackie DeShannon aft it had been initially turned down by Warwick, who felt it was "too preachy".

Bacharach wrote successful his 2014 autobiography that the deceptively elemental waltz tempo popular deed contained immoderate of the astir hard lyrics his spouse David ever wrote, acceptable against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

Another mentation of the way by vigor DJ Tom Clay, which sampled speeches by John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, arsenic good arsenic quality sum of their assassinations, reached fig 7 successful the US successful 1971.