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That’s What Friends Are For

song by Bacharach and Sager

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discussed in biography of Bacharach

In Burt Bacharach
…of the year for “That’s What Friends Are For” (cowritten with Sager). In 2009 he was honoured with a Grammy for lifetime achievement, and three years later he and David shared the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Bacharach’s memoir, Anyone Who Had a Heart (cowritten with Robert Greenfield), was…
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Knight

In Gladys Knight
…the AIDS charity single “That’s What Friends Are For,” which also featured Elton John, Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Wonder. The single won the Grammy for best pop performance by a duo or group in 1987. In 1988 Gladys Knight and the Pips disbanded. (They were inducted into the Rock…
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Warwick

In Dionne Warwick: Career peak
…Bacharach, performing on his “That’s What Friends Are For” (1985), which also features Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder. The song, the proceeds of which went to funding AIDS research, earned Warwick her fifth Grammy.
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