Ronan Keating Teams Up With Burt Bacharach

Media Release - Your Mum's favourite Irishman, Ronan Keating, has teamed up with your Mum's favourite composer, 
Burt Bacharach, to record his brand new solo album, When Ronan Met Burt, set for release on April 11th... perfectly timed for Mother's Day!

A long time fan of Burt's staggering back catalogue, Ronan is thrilled to be working with one of his all‐time musical heroes on this very special collaboration. The Irish superstar first contacted Burt last 
year; he was ecstatic when the iconic composer and producer agreed for them to work together.  

Backed by a full orchestra, the result is a spectacular album recorded by the duo earlier this year. All the tracks featured are classics composed by Burt over the course of his impressive fifty year career 
and include instantly recognisable hits such as ‘Walk On By', ‘The Look Of Love', ‘What The World 
Needs Now Is Love' and ‘I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself'. All the tracks were recorded live with a full orchestra, ensuring that the grandeur and stature of these timeless classics was captured and conserved.  

"It has been a dream come true to work with Burt on this album," Ronan says of the collaboration. "I 
grew up listening to his songs and the tracks we've chosen to record for the album are simply some of 
the greatest pop masterpieces ever written, so it was an honour to sing them alongside the man himself."

 Speaking about the recording session Ronan said, "It was one of the hardest sessions I've done. It's 
hard enough trying to do justice to such legendary tunes but to record them with the man himself was 
another level of pressure".

 Burt said of the process, "To do these songs with a different slant and approach on them made it very 
interesting for me. And to be able to work with Ronan and expose these songs to maybe a younger 
audience as well as my fan base. Then to be able to record it in the legendary Capitol recording studio ‐ full orchestra live. Quite a trip we were on Ronan".

Full track listing:

1) The Look Of Love

2) Walk On By

3) I'll Never Fall In Love Again

4) Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)

5) My Little Red Book

6) What The World Needs Now

7) Something Big

8) I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

9) This House Is Empty Now

10) Make It Easy On Yourself

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