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We're In Love With This Guy: Hal David

Terry Staunton, music365.com, 27 May 1999

Lyrical legend HAL DAVID has just become the first non-Briton to be honoured with a prestigious Ivor Novello Award by the British Academy Of Composers And Songwriters for his string of landmark hits with easy listening icon Burt Bacharach. TERRY STAUNTON said a little prayer and went to meet one of the greatest backroom boys in pop history.

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