Wow, this is indeed sad news. My condolence to her family and loved ones.
Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson together had a daughter named Nikki when they were married back in the mid-1960's. Around the time of her birth in 1966, Bacharach and Hal David wrote a beautiful song named "Nikki," and a dramatic instrumental rendition of it was used for the music theme of ABC-TV's "The Movie of the Week" series in the late 1960s to early 1970's. Here is a link to a low-quality clip of it with its great video graphics evocative of road or outerspace travel at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-Vkd7On2Q . (I am an avid fan of many catchy movie and TV themes, and this has to be one of the best, along with Henry Mancini's theme for NBC's Mystery Movie, Johnny River's "Secret Agent Man," and Dave Grusin & Laurence Berger's "It Takes a Thief.")
I don't know much about Nikki Bacharach beyond what I have written and her apparent struggles with Asperger's Disorder as mentioned in the news article link above, but here are the lyrics to her song:
NIKKI
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)
Somewhere there is sunshine.
Somewhere days are warm.
Somewhere there's a happy harbor
far from the storm.
Out where the sun shines there is someone
I'm meant to adore,
and I know the day I find her,
I'll smile once more.
Nikki, it's you.
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away.
I won't spend a happy day
'til you're back in my arms.
For ev'ry dream there is a dreamer,
and when dreams are gone,
for each wish
another star shines to wish up on.
Take all my dreams and all my wishes
Hold them in your heart.
Tell me soon we'll be together,
never to part.
Nikki, it's you.
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away.
I won't spend a happy day
'til you're back in my arms.
Don't make me wait here in the shadows
till my life is done.
I can't live without the sunshine,
you are the sun.
Oh Nikki, it's you.
