“God Give Me Strength” introduced the world to the musical partnership of Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. That song would inspire an entire album of material, as well as various live ...

In the mid 1990s, Costello sent Bacharach ideas for a song called “God Give Me Strength,” and Bacharach responded by sharpening a few lines and adding a new bridge, which turned out to be the ...

Bacharach teamed up with Elvis Costello in 1996 to write and record God Give Me Strength, which was originally released ... “These amazing riffs are the steel girders of the songs, upon which ...