Pop review: Burt Bacharach, Roundhouse, London

Burt Bacharach was voted one of the sexiest men alive by America's People magazine as recently as 2000, something that is a good deal easier to understand when he's a few yards away, ruminatively tinkling a piano. The "greatest living composer", according to the Grammy panel that gave him a lifetime achievement award this year, is 80, and he looks it; but it's an exceedingly suave 80. Long-chinned, gravel-voiced, he's the coolest person in a room where quite a few punters are 50 years his junior...

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