Drums: Carlos Vega
Producer: Jack White
Vocals: Laura Branigan
Guitar: Michael Landau
Bass Guitar: Nathan East
Piano, Synthesiser: Robbie Buchanan
Composer: Giancarlo Bigazzi
Composer: Raffaele Riefoli
Lyricist: Stephen Vincent Piccolo
Jennifer Beals
Irene Cara is best known as a singer of movie themes, though she worked as an actress since childhood. Raised in New York City, she appeared on Broadway in 1967 in the musical Maggie Flynn at age eight and can be heard on the cast album for the show The Me Nobody Knows. From the age of 16, she was turning up on television and in films, including a part in the TV mini-series Roots 2 in 1979. In 1980, she was catapulted into stardom and a singing career by her appearance in the film Fame, for which she sang the title song, an Oscar-winning Top Ten hit. Also from the film was her Top 40 hit «Out Here on My Own.» In 1983, she topped the charts with «Flashdance...What a Feelin» from the movie Flashdance, a song she co-wrote that won another Oscar, and Cara won a couple of Grammys for her contributions to the soundtrack. Her What a Feelin album included the hits «Why Me?» and «Breakdance,» and she also made the Top 40 with a third movie theme, «The Dream (Hold on to Your Dream),» from DC Cab. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala). The films signature scene is, of course, Alexs water-drenched dance audition, largely performed in long shot by her dance double Marine Jahan. Essentially an old-fashioned backstage yarn, Flashdance was given a contemporary spin by its pulsating, musical score featuring the Oscar-winning Best Song, Flashdance...What a Feeling, (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara).
Similar Works
Fame (1980, Alan Parker)
Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
Footloose (1984, Herbert Ross)
Center Stage (2000, Nicholas Hytner)
Save the Last Dance (2001, Thomas Carter)
Dirty Dancing (1987, Emile Ardolino)
Over the Top (1986, Menahem Golan)
8 Mile (2002, Curtis Hanson)
Honey (2003, Bille Woodruff)
Brave New Girl (2004, Bobby Roth)
Other Related Works
Is featured in: The Full Monty (1997, Peter Cattaneo)
Is related to: Dance with Me (1998, Randa Haines)
Influenced: Sunset Strip (1991, Paul G. Volk)
Make It Happen (2008, Darren Grant)
℗ 2006 Warner Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
Engineer, Mixer, Recorded by: Andrew Scheps
Vocals: Anthony Kiedis
Assistant Engineer: Anthony Zamora
Drums: Chad Smith
Additional Engineer: Chris Holmes
Additional Engineer: Dana Nielson
Bass, Guitar: Flea
Assistant Mixing Engineer: Jason Gossman
Additional Engineer: Jason Lader
Guitar, Vocals: John Frusciante
Additional Percussion: Lenny Castro
Engineer, Recorded by: Mark Linette
Assistant Engineer: Mark Santangelo
Percussion: Paulinho da Costa
Additional Percussion: Paulinho de Costa
Assistant Engineer: Phillip Broussard
Producer: Rick Rubin
Engineer, Recorded by: Ryan Hewitt
Engineer, Masterer: Vlado Meller
Composer, Writer: Anthony Kiedis
Composer, Writer: Chad Smith
Composer, Writer: Flea
Composer, Writer: John Frusciante
Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame?
You say one love, one life, when its one need in the night.
One love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you dont care for it.
Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love and you want me to go without.
Well, its too late tonight to drag the past out into the light.
Were one, but were not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other… one
Have you come here for forgiveness,
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much, more than a lot
You gave me nothing, now its all I got.
Were one, but were not the same.
Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again.
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I cant be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.
One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.
One life with each other: sisters, brothers.
One life, but were not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
One, one.