What was Burt Bacharach the great lounge lizard composer like?
Well, I don’t know how he ever got the time to make music as he was married to this disgustingly noisy brute of a woman. The actress Angie Dickinson? Yes that’s her! My God, she’s one of those American women you should never encounter. Like a full-blown hurricane every minute of the day. I couldn’t believe he could put up with her. How he ever found time to have music flowing through his head with all that noise going on I don’t know. So how did you get to score the Pussycat film? Burt had never written a film score before and he ended up writing about 57 different tunes, but it wasn’t a score. He went back to America and the producers asked me if there was anything I could do! Here was this incredible chance for me at 24 being asked to make the score for a multi million dollar movie and use Burt Bacharach’s music. I destroyed it! I took the best three tunes he’d done and a few other themes and threw everything else away. God knows what he must have thought when he went to the premiere
