A Todd Rundgren-Led ‘Burt Bacharach Songbook’ Tour Delivers Melodic Thrills From One of Popular Music’s Greatest Catalogs: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic So, you say you like melodies? Putting your priorities there may consign you to minority status among 2025’s wider bloc of pop fans.
But for the sonorously starved among us, a bit of manna from a more euphonious heaven has arrived in the form of “What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live in Concert,” a multi-artist outing whose generous setlists are, fortunately, as long-winded as the tour’s title.
For anyone nostalgic for a time when a guy who couldn’t sing could become a kind of pop superstar just through his command of chord progressions, it’s about 2 hours and 45 minutes of bliss.
The tour hit L.A.’s Wiltern on Sunday night on just its second night out, following an opening night in Ventura. There are not nearly as many nights left (about 20 in all) as Bacharach devotees from areas that are being bypassed might wish.
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