"would dethrone it from the top spot, Billy Joel's ""Tell Her About It"". The Original Soundtrack of ""Flashdance"" won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for A Motion Picture or a Television Special. The song was nominated for an Academy Award. Another song from the film, ""Flashdance... What a Feeling"" performed by Irene Cara, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983. Maniac (Michael Sembello song) ""Maniac"" is a song performed by Michael Sembello. The song was used in the 1983 film ""Flashdance"". ""Maniac"" appears during an early scene in ""Flashdance"" and is"
"song was originally written for the 1980 horror film ""Maniac"", and that lyrics about a killer on the loose were rewritten so the song could be used in ""Flashdance"". The legend is discredited in the special features of the film's DVD release, which reveal that the song was written for the film, although only two complete lyrics (""Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night"" and ""She's a maniac"") were available when filming commenced. Like the title song, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1983. Other songs in the film include ""Lady, Lady, Lady"","
"was subsequently included as a bonus track on Thriller 25 - the 25th anniversary edition reissue of the album; the full version was later released on iTunes in 2013 as part of The Ultimate Fan Extras Collection. Sembello released his first solo album, ""Bossa Nova Hotel"", in 1983. The song ""Maniac"" from that album, which he co-wrote with his keyboardist Dennis Matkosky, was selected for inclusion in the film ""Flashdance"". ""Maniac"" was the second best charting song from the soundtrack (after the title track) and the ninth biggest single of 1983. That soundtrack won a Grammy Award in 1983 for"
"Flashdance (soundtrack) Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the 1983 American musical and romance film ""Flashdance"", produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri. It has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. The film is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and follows Alex, a welder and exotic dancer and her dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. In 1984, the album received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and won for Best Album of Original Score"
"Maniac (2011 film) Maniac (stylized as MANIAC) is an American short slasher film, directed by Shia LaBeouf. It was released on October 31, 2011. The short film stars American rappers Scott ""Kid Cudi"" Mescudi and Chris ""Cage"" Palko as French-speaking serial killers. Mescudi and Palko also co-wrote the film with LaBeouf. A filmmaker (Shia LaBeouf) documents the exploits of two serial killers (Scott Mescudi and Chris Balko). Shia LaBeouf first directed a music video for New York-based rapper Cage in 2009, for his track ""I Never Knew You"": ""I'm 22 and I'm directing my favorite rapper's music video,"" LaBeouf told"
"Flashdance... What a Feeling ""Flashdance... What a Feeling"" is a song from the 1983 film ""Flashdance"", written by Italian composer Giorgio Moroder (music), Keith Forsey and Irene Cara (lyrics), and performed by Cara. In addition to topping the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, becoming Cara's only #1 song, it earned a platinum record, the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2004 it finished at #55 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The song also kept Culture Club's"
"Bossa Nova Hotel Bossa Nova Hotel is the debut album of rock singer/guitarist Michael Sembello. The album contained ten tracks including the smash hit ""Maniac"" from the motion picture ""Flashdance"", which topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in September 1983. The album itself peaked at #80 on the ""Billboard"" 200. ""Automatic Man"" and ""Talk"" were the other singles released from the album. ""Automatic Man"" had three other versions released on an LP and 45 single (which were the Extended mix, Instrumental mix and Single Version). The version of ""Maniac"" that appeared on the soundtrack to ""Flashdance"" is different from the one"
"weeks. In Japan, the album topped the chart for 11 weeks in total, and became the biggest-selling album of 1983. The music in ""Flashdance"" was supervised by Phil Ramone. There are several pieces of music used in the film that do not appear on the soundtrack album, including ""Gloria"" by Laura Branigan; ""I Love Rock and Roll"" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; and the ""Adagio in G Minor"" by Remo Giazotto. The title track ""Flashdance... What a Feeling"" was originally recorded by Joe Esposito before Irene Cara was asked to re-record the song as in line with the film's"
"and Switzerland. 20. https://web.archive.org/web/20150102001128/http://80ssoundtracksaor.blogspot.com.tr/2011/03/flashdance-1983-expanded-soundtrack-20.html Flashdance (soundtrack) Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the 1983 American musical and romance film ""Flashdance"", produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri. It has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. The film is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and follows Alex, a welder and exotic dancer and her dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. In 1984, the album received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and won for Best"
"the age of 79. They had three children, including Matthew Ramone, general manager of Phil Ramone Incorporated. Karen Kamon Karen Ichiuji-Ramone, known by her stage name Karen Kamon, is an American singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance of ""Manhunt"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""Flashdance."" She also sang ""Squeeze Play"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""D.C. Cab"" and provided character voices for the movie ""Oliver & Company."" In television, she appeared in one episode of the U.S. TV series ""T.J. Hooker."" She is listed as a production associate on Karen Carpenter's solo album"
"Maniac (band) Maniac is a power pop, punk rock band from Los Angeles, CA. that was started by Andrew Zappin, Zache Davis of The Cute Lepers and The Girls, Ardavon Fatehi and Richie Cardenas of Clorox Girls and Neighborhood Brats in 2012. Shortly after Maniac's formation, Justin Maurer of La Drugz and Clorox Girls replaced Ardavon on guitar. The following year, Richie left and was replaced by James Carman of Images and LA Drugz on the drums. Maniac have been described as ""a perfect combination of everything that's cool about melodic punk and power pop"" and their first record Demimonde"
"On October 31, 2011, in the spirit of Halloween, Kid Cudi released the short film via YouTube. Maniac (2011 film) Maniac (stylized as MANIAC) is an American short slasher film, directed by Shia LaBeouf. It was released on October 31, 2011. The short film stars American rappers Scott ""Kid Cudi"" Mescudi and Chris ""Cage"" Palko as French-speaking serial killers. Mescudi and Palko also co-wrote the film with LaBeouf. A filmmaker (Shia LaBeouf) documents the exploits of two serial killers (Scott Mescudi and Chris Balko). Shia LaBeouf first directed a music video for New York-based rapper Cage in 2009, for his"
"the disbandment in 2011. Maniac (Girlicious song) ""Maniac"" is a song performed by American girl group Girlicious. Released as the second single from their second album, ""Rebuilt"". It officially impacted Canadian radio on March 23, 2010. It was released to iTunes Canada on April 6, 2010. Maniac"" reached number seventy-four on the Canadian Hot 100. It performed best on the Serbian Top 50 singles where it charted for eleven weeks and reached a peak of eleven. ""Maniac"" was written by Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench. Natalie Mejia explained the main concept behind the song saying, ""It is just about a"
"Karen Kamon Karen Ichiuji-Ramone, known by her stage name Karen Kamon, is an American singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance of ""Manhunt"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""Flashdance."" She also sang ""Squeeze Play"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""D.C. Cab"" and provided character voices for the movie ""Oliver & Company."" In television, she appeared in one episode of the U.S. TV series ""T.J. Hooker."" She is listed as a production associate on Karen Carpenter's solo album and credited, on the Carpenters compilation album ""Lovelines,"" as a friend of Karen Carpenter. She was also"
"Broadway musical ""Maggie Flynn"", starring Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy, in which both young girls played Civil War orphans. In 1983, Cara reached the peak of her music career with the title song for the movie ""Flashdance"": ""Flashdance... What A Feeling"", which she co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey. Cara penned the lyrics to the song with Keith Forsey while riding in a car in New York heading to the studio to record it; Moroder composed the music. Cara admitted later that she was initially reluctant to work with Giorgio Moroder because she had no wish to invite further"
"Flashdance (song) ""Flashdance"" is a song by American electronic music duo Deep Dish, it is cover of ""He's a Dream"" by Shandi Sinnamon from the Flashdance soundtrack. Ben Hogwood of musicOMH was favorable of the song, saying that ""Flashdance"" has given Deep Dish ""a huge worldwide club hit, its full-bodied hook picked up by many a DJ"". Hogwood named it the most commercial track on the album, which according to him ""loosely follows the lead of its predecessor, teaming moody instrumentals with club based vocal tracks"". For the chart issue dated 9 October 2004, ""Flashdance"" debuted at number three on"
"duration of the song in the three contrasting outfits, before taking the wig off at the end. 7"" Insomniac (song) ""Insomniac"" is a song by the Britpop band Echobelly. It was released as a single in March 1994 and was included on the band's album, ""Everyone's Got One"". The song, written by Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson, is primarily about drug abuse. The single received positive critical reviews and peaked at #47 on the UK music charts. It was featured on the soundtrack for the film ""Dumb and Dumber"". ""Insomniac"" was composed by band members Sonya Aurora Madan and Glenn"
"Insomniac (song) ""Insomniac"" is a song by the Britpop band Echobelly. It was released as a single in March 1994 and was included on the band's album, ""Everyone's Got One"". The song, written by Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson, is primarily about drug abuse. The single received positive critical reviews and peaked at #47 on the UK music charts. It was featured on the soundtrack for the film ""Dumb and Dumber"". ""Insomniac"" was composed by band members Sonya Aurora Madan and Glenn Johansson. It is based on a 4/4 alternating verse/chorus structure and may be a musical homage to one"
"lyrics such as ""He's a maniac, maniac, that's for sure / He will kill your cat and nail it to the door."" Producer Phil Ramone convinced Sembello to write new lyrics to reflect the film's subject matter. A new version was released in 2000, by Irish DJ Mark McCabe, entitled ""Maniac 2000"". Credits adapted from the album ""Bossa Nova Hotel"". ""Maniac"" reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for two weeks beginning on September 10, 1983 and is one of the highest-grossing songs ever written for a film. In addition to producing ""Maniac"", Phil Ramone produced the song that"
"platinum selling album ""I Am Chipmunk"" and ""Liquid Organ"" which was used by Wiley on his 2014 album ""Snakes & Ladders"". In 2015, Maniac was released from prison on a conditional licence and returned to making music his first release after being released was a single with Wiley entitled ""Outchea"". In October 2015, Maxsta announced that he would be releasing a collaborative EP with Maniac and Boothroyd on Rinse. Maniac produced four tracks for the ""BrOTHERHOOD"" film soundtrack, collaborating with Chip, AJ Tracey, P Money and Curtis Clacey. Maniac (producer) Maniac (born Brandon Jolie in Bow, East London) is an"
"performed by Joe Esposito, ""Gloria"" and ""Imagination"" performed by Laura Branigan, and ""I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is"", performed by Kim Carnes. The soundtrack album of ""Flashdance"" sold 700,000 copies during its first two weeks on sale and has gone on to sell over 6,000,000 copies in the US alone. In 1984, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special. Adrian Lyne, whose background was primarily in directing television commercials, was not the first choice as director of ""Flashdance"". David Cronenberg turned down an offer to"
"Maniac (Girlicious song) ""Maniac"" is a song performed by American girl group Girlicious. Released as the second single from their second album, ""Rebuilt"". It officially impacted Canadian radio on March 23, 2010. It was released to iTunes Canada on April 6, 2010. Maniac"" reached number seventy-four on the Canadian Hot 100. It performed best on the Serbian Top 50 singles where it charted for eleven weeks and reached a peak of eleven. ""Maniac"" was written by Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench. Natalie Mejia explained the main concept behind the song saying, ""It is just about a love that kind of"
"Flashdance Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri. It was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and the presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other 1980s films including ""Footloose"", ""Purple Rain"", and ""Top Gun"", Simpson and Bruckheimer's most famous production. ""Flashdance"" opened to negative reviews by professional critics, but was a surprise box office success, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1983 in the United States. It had a worldwide box-office gross of more than $200"
"Magic (Olivia Newton-John song) ""Magic"" is a 1980 song performed by Olivia Newton-John, from the soundtrack to the film ""Xanadu"". The song was number 1 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for four weeks beginning on August 2, 1980. On August 30, it was displaced from the top by ""Sailing"" by Christopher Cross. It was her 25th American chart hit, and her 10th of 12 records which went Gold or higher. ""Magic"" was also her biggest pop hit until ""Physical"" ruled the Hot 100 for ten weeks beginning in November 1981. ""Billboard"" magazine ranked ""Magic"" as the third most popular"
"releases of ""Say Hello"", and was released as an a-side single on the Absolute Sound label in France. Flashdance (song) ""Flashdance"" is a song by American electronic music duo Deep Dish, it is cover of ""He's a Dream"" by Shandi Sinnamon from the Flashdance soundtrack. Ben Hogwood of musicOMH was favorable of the song, saying that ""Flashdance"" has given Deep Dish ""a huge worldwide club hit, its full-bodied hook picked up by many a DJ"". Hogwood named it the most commercial track on the album, which according to him ""loosely follows the lead of its predecessor, teaming moody instrumentals with"
"world, including the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), and the BRIT School. The film and its title song helped launch Irene Cara's musical career. She recorded three solo albums and contributed to several film soundtracks, notably performing ""Flashdance...What a Feeling"", the title song for ""Flashdance"", for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Paul McCrane, Meg Tilly, and Barry Miller went on to successful acting careers, while Gene Anthony Ray, Debbie Allen and Lee Curerri found success and popularity with the television series. Ray struggled with drug and alcohol addictions, and worked sporadically after the series"
"charts was ""Love Maniac"" in 1979, her name as a singer back then was A'mbar, after that followed her second number 1 with ""The Witch"" and soon after ""Dangerous Rhythm"". In what is generally considered to be her best known song, she was asked by Giorgio Moroder to write the lyrics in Spanish and sing ""Vamos a Bailar"" which he had written to be part of the soundtrack for the film ""Scarface"". The song instantly became a classic amongst Spanish speakers despite failing to garner any major attention outside of Cuba where it was recorded. As her two albums with"
"Irene Cara Irene Cara Escalera (born March 18, 1959), known professionally as Irene Cara, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Cara sang and co-wrote the song 'Flashdance... What a Feeling' (from the movie ""Flashdance""), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1984. Cara is also known for playing the role of Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film ""Fame"", and for recording the film's title song 'Fame'. Prior to her success with ""Fame"", Cara portrayed the title character Sparkle Williams in the original 1976"
"Batdance ""Batdance"" is a song recorded by American musician Prince for the 1989 ""Batman"" soundtrack. Helped by the film's popularity, it reached number one in the United States, becoming Prince's fourth number-one single in that region, and his first to achieve the feat of topping all 3 American charts since ""Kiss"" in 1986. ""Batdance"" was a last-minute replacement for a brooding track titled ""Dance with the Devil"", which Prince felt was too dark. Incidentally, although ""Dance with the Devil"" remains unreleased, some of the lyrics appear in the album's liner notes. ""Batdance"" is almost two songs in one—a chaotic, mechanical"
"Flash (Queen song) ""Flash"" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by guitarist Brian May, ""Flash"" is the theme song of the 1980 film ""Flash Gordon"". There are two versions of the song. The album version (""Flash's Theme"") is in fact the start to the movie, with all the dialogue from the first scene. The single version contains dialogue cut from various parts of the movie, most memorably, Brian Blessed's character exclaiming ""Gordon's alive?!"" This version was also included on the ""Greatest Hits"" compilation from 1981. Flash is sung as a duet between Freddie Mercury and Brian"
"Helen St. John Helen St. John is a singer-songwriter, pianist, lyricist and recording artist. St. John's claim to fame came as a result of her piano performances on the soundtrack of the motion picture Flashdance, ""Love Theme from Flashdance,"" which resulted in two Grammy nominations: Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Album of the Year. The 2008 CD ""Moment By Moment"" is her first release as a singer-songwriter. She has produced a CD of modern spiritually-inspired songs driven by world beats and pop drums. St. John was involved in the making of the soundtracks for ""Scarface"", ""Superman III"" and ""Electric Dreams"""
"Maniac (2012 film) Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film directed by Franck Khalfoun, written by Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur, and starring Elijah Wood and Nora Arnezeder. It is a remake of the 1980 film of the same name, and follows the violent exploits of a brutal serial killer. The film is an international co-production produced by the French film companies La Petite Reine and Studio 37. Unlike the original 1980 film, which is set in New York City, writers Aja, Levasseur, and Rosenberg chose to set the film in Los Angeles. Frank Zito is a disturbed young man"
"Maniac (1963 film) Maniac (also known as The Maniac) is a 1963 psychological thriller film directed by Michael Carreras and starring Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray and Donald Houston. The film, which was produced by Hammer Films, is an international co-production between the United Kingdom and France. The story tells of vacationing American artist Jeff Farrell who becomes romantically involved with an older woman named Eve Beynat, in southern France, while harboring some attraction for her teenage stepdaughter Annette. Eve's husband/Annette's father Georges is in an asylum for, four years ago, using a blowtorch to kill a man who had raped"