Michael Sembello - Maniac (1983) Flashdance - Soundtrack (1983)

Michael Sembello aka Michael Andrew Sembello. American singer, guitar player, keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer.
As a single, "Maniac" earned Sembello Grammy nominations for Record of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, and a nomination with Matkosky for Song of the Year. As part of the Flashdance soundtrack, it gave them and all of the songwriters who contributed to the album the Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special, and Sembello was also nominated alongside all of the other performers on the soundtrack for Album of the Year. "Maniac" was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song, and the music video for "Maniac" was awarded Best Editing at Billboard magazine's Video Music Awards.

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Before Flashdance was released on April 15, 1983, its distributor Paramount Pictures had doubts that it would do well at the box office. The May 7 issue of Cash Box, however, reported on the surprise success of the film and Paramount's plan to have Lyne take parts of scenes from it to create music videos to be shown on the cable channel MTV as well as on television programs and at other venues featuring such clips.

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Michael Sembello - Maniac (1983) May 1983
Music, Lyrics – Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello
Vocals, guitar, keyboard bass, producer - Michael Sembello (Born on April 17, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
keyboards, synthesizer - Dennis Matkosky
Producer - Phil Ramone
1983 PolyGram Records, Inc. New York/Casablanca
1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night
Lookin' for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all
They all say she's crazy

Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart
Changing movement into light
She has danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes the dance

It can cut you like a knife,
If the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

On the ice-blue line of insanity
Is a place most never see
It's a hard-won place of mystery
Touch it, but can't hold it
You work all your life for that Moment in time
It could come or pass you by
It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays the night

There's a cold kinetic heat,
Struggling, stretching for the beat
Never stopping with her head against the wind

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

It can cut you like a knife
If the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be

She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

Maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

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