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Liza Minnelli in moments from the music video for her top ten dance hit Losing My Mind, directed by Brian Grant and released on August 5th, 1989. The song was originally written by Broadway maestro Stephen Sondhiem for the 1971 stage musical Follies and given the late-80s dance-disco treatment by the Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe) and producer Julian Mendelsohn for Liza's comeback album Results. A complete departure from Minnelli's usual style, the album worked spectacularly by incorporating torch songs and Liza's powerful vocals with a dance floor beat and ranks among the gayest albums ever recorded (on par with Kylie Minogue's vastly under-appreciated 2000 release Light Years and Gaga's epic 2009 LP The Fame Monster).
Love Kills (1991) | Dir. Brian Grant
looking for a new love |1987|
34-year-old Donna Summer released her 11th studio album on 13 June 1983.
Summer had signed with Geffen Records in 1980 (the first signing by the label), but quickly developed a contentious relationship with David Geffen, who deemed her first album for Geffen Records, I’m a Rainbow, to be uncommercial (it would not be released until 1996), and Geffen also forced her to use a different producer than Giorgio Moroder (who had produced most of Summer’s previous hits).
When Summer delivered She Works Hard for the Money, Geffen also thought it would not sell and was not going to release it until PolyGram records (which now owned Summer’s old label, Casablanca) notified Geffen that Summer still owed another album. Geffen gladly handed over the album.
The title track was inspired by bathroom attendant Onetta Johnson (pictured on the back cover), who Summer met at a party after the Grammy Awards ceremony in February 1983, and proved to be one of Summer’s biggest hits (peaking at #3 in the US).
She Works Hard for the Money was her best-selling album of the 1980s, peaking at #9 in the US and selling more than 500,000 copies. Summer received a Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for “He’s a Rebel.”
The music video for “She Works Hard for the Money” (directed by Brian Grant) was one of the first videos for a black artist to appear on MTV, and the first for a black, female artist.
In 200,000 AD The human race should be in its 4th Great and Glorious Empire, but in one alternate timeline it is being artificially held back. The time traveling alien the Doctor (Doctor 9) and his companion named Rose discover that the answer may be found in Satellite five which provides over 600 channels of news and entertainment to Earth. In this possible future, people have chips implanted into their heads so they can download information directly into their brains. ("The Long Game" Doctor Who, TV)
Olivia Newton-John: Physical 1981
Whitney Houston - “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, 1987
Directed by Brian Grant
Choreographed by Arlene Phillips