The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic dramatic film, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
A box office success, the film was nominated for several awards and won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for "The Way We Were". The soundtrack recording charted for 23 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually sold in excess of one million copies.
Told in flashback, it is the story of Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardner, who meet at college in the 1930s.
Their differences are immense: she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong anti-war opinions, and he is a carefree WASP with no particular political bent. She is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill, which she finds captivating, although he doesn't work very hard at it. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes. They meet, romantically, for the first time on the night that the Duke of Windsor marries Mrs. Simpson.
Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937), is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the mid-1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century". In the US, in particular, she is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979) and is the only artist to record more than one Bond theme song. Bassey is also a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
"Born above a brothel in a docklands slum", Shirley Veronica Bassey was the sixth and last child of Eliza Jane Start and Henry Bassey in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales (now called Cardiff Bay), of paternal Nigerian and maternal English descent. Bassey's mother also had four children from previous relationships, two of whom lived in the Bassey household. Eliza had married previously, to Alfred Metcalfe, and upon her marriage to Bassey, Eliza Jane Metcalfe listed Alfred Metcalfe as her father on the marriage registry. It has thus been theorized that she never divorced Alfred, and that her marriage to Bassey was bigamous. Eliza and Henry's second child died in infancy, so Shirley was born into a household of three sisters, two half-sisters, and one brother. A year later her father was arrested and charged with having sex with a minor, was tried, imprisoned for five years, then deported. After Henry's arrest, Eliza and the children moved to the nearby steelworking district of Splott.
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author. She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.
Knight was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth (née Woods) and Merald Woodlow Knight, Sr., a postal worker. She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of 7 in 1952. The following year, she, her brother Merald, sister Brenda, and cousins William and Elenor Guest formed a musical group called The Pips (named after another cousin, James "Pip" Woods). By the end of the decade, the act had begun to tour, and had replaced Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest with Gladys Knight's cousin Edward Patten and friend Langston George.
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period.
Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.
Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home-built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want It All", "We Will Rock You", "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Who Wants to Live Forever".
He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for "services to the music industry and his charity work". May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College in 2007 and is currently the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. May currently resides in Surrey.
In 2005, a Planet Rock poll saw May voted the 7th greatest guitarist of all time. He was ranked at No. 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Brian May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born in Hampton, London and attended Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School). During this time he formed his first band with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after George Orwell's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ordinary Levels and three Advanced Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. He studied Mathematics and Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with B.Sc. degree with honours.
We were like that once...when you could die of a broken heart, and
just one smile could fix it all. we'd get back up when we'd fall.
and we believed the songs we sang. we knew everything...except
that it would end, at least the way we knew. i've never known it
more than i do now. and we would never be like this. we believed
in forever, because we still had it. somehow it got lost along the
way. we had things that we lived for, and we'd die for even more.
we're not colder now...just a little older. and we can't go back,
we were just getting somewherei couldn't believe that it
was time to let go
and i'm letting you know
i am still waiting somewhere
i'm making a wish upon my star from afar
you don't know how precious you are
memory - thats all that's left of us for me
and there's not one thing i would change
i know that you had to go away
but now i need you to hear me say...
come home to me - and that means not just in my dreams
'cause there's still room for you in me
i'll make your problems fade away
you know you're my angel too that way
would you have ever thought
that we would make it this far
for nothing?
i would have never dreamed
that we could build love this strong
from nothing
love is blind
but something's different this time
i hope we find what love sees we deserve
This is the name of the game.
That's the name of the game
We're placing the shame
And you are to blame
Through all of your fame and acclaim
You're nothing
Found
Hunt me down
Take me round
Out of town going down
Take a breath
On the floor
Like before
Washed ashore so early
Where did we go, where have we been.
When all along we should have been fighting.
For what he had, what we were, what we could have been last night.
But I'll never know Where we'd ever go If you'd ever shown to invite me
And I'll never ever see
What we'd ever ever be
Cus I'll never ever
Ever be free
Kneel at my feet.
Stop
With your game
Push your name
For the fortune and fame
Push yourself
Not your belt
How you felt
Is all clear to me
Where did we go, where have we been.
When all along we should have been fighting.
For what he had, what we were, what we could have been last night.
But I'll never know Where we'd ever go If you'd ever shown to invite me
And I'll never ever see
What we'd ever ever be
Cus I'll never ever
Ever be free
Take away my heart
Take away my soul
Take away the money
After everything you stole
Take away my trust
Then I trust you all the same
Then leave me in the corner
With your money and your fame
So I'll jump upon your heart
And sit upon your soul
And redirect your money
After everything you stole
Then I'll play them at your game
And they'll trust me all the same
And I'll end up here with everything
Your money and your fame.
And you'll pretend your happy
Because people know your name
But I'll be sitting in the corner with your money and your fame
But there's noone knows my face
And there's no one knows my name
But I'll be sitting in your mind
With your money and your fame
And you will keep on crying because noone knows your name
When the start of all your dismay was the money and the fame
And the night you slept with djs and said no one was to blame
And I was sat here alone thinking existence was a shame
[Slow]
Where did we go, where have we been.
When all along we should have been fighting.
For what he had, what we were, what we could have been last night.
But I'll never know Where we'd e ver go If you'd ever shown to invite me
And I'll never ever see
What we'd ever ever be
Cus I'll never ever
Ever be free
[Chorusx2]
Where did we go, where have we been.
When all along we should have been fighting.
For what he had, what we were, what we could have been last night.
But I'll never know Where we'd e ver go If you'd ever shown to invite me
And I'll never ever see
What we'd ever ever be
Cus I'll never ever