'Stairway to Heaven,' 'Imagine,' and songs by John Denver, Mariah Carey, Louis Armstrong, The Police and more will be preserved by the Library of Congress for future generations.
For the 1983 film"Flashdance," about a young dancer played by Jennifer Beals who dreams of making it in ballet in spite of her blue-collar street cred, Irene Cara co-wrote and performed the title track,"Flashdance ... What A Feeling," which would sit on top of the Billboard charts for six weeks. She would share the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for best original song with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey. They also shared a Grammy for the film's soundtrack album.
The song was produced by Lennon, Yoko Ono and Phil Spector. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine listed"Imagine" at #3 on its roster of"500 Greatest Songs of All Time."Madonna Ciccone, who was only 5 years old when she lost her mother to breast cancer, said the trauma of that loss fueled her rebellious nature and her famous desire to push the envelope.
And what exactly did the two of them throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge the day before his death? Gentry says she knows but will not say. A 1976 film, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor, offered one answer. But the song, and its inherent mystery, survives that film.In 1990, as Voyager 1 was reaching the edge of the solar system, Carl Sagan asked NASA to have a photo taken of Earth from a distance of about four billion miles.
Though the song wasn't officially released as a single , the album went platinum 24x in the U.S. alone, and the song's popularity made it a mainstay of FM radio and near the top of various"greatest rock songs" lists. More than three decades after its release,"Stairway to Heaven" would hit the charts on its own once sales of digital downloads began being tracked.
First collaborating as part of the rock band The Tourists, Lennox and Stewart would become the pioneering new wave duo Eurythmics, who pushed the envelope of electronic rock and the developing medium of music videos. With their 1983 release"Sweet Dreams," which hit #1 in the U.S. they became worldwide stars.Lennox told The Guardian in 2017
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