Flashdance (soundtrack)
| Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture | ||
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | ||
| Released | April 11, 1983 | |
| Recorded | 1982 | |
| Genre | Electro, Euro disco, hi-NRG, synthpop, pop rock | |
| Length | 36.52 | |
| Label | Casablanca | |
| Compiler | Giorgio Moroder | |
| Singles from Flashdance | ||
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| Source | Rating |
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| Robert Christgau | B− |
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 sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. 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 Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.
The film's three singles feature on the album. Two of these singles, "Flashdance...What a Feeling" by Irene Cara and "Maniac" by Michael Sembello, peaked at #1 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The track "Romeo" by Donna Summer was released as a promo video to MTV prior to the film's release, composed only of outtakes from the film. However, the song was not released to radio as Summer was on the verge of releasing her 1983 album She Works Hard for the Money, and the title track was already becoming a major hit. ("She Works Hard for the Money" was actually in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 consecutively with both "Flashdance...What a Feeling" and "Maniac".)
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