Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers cover version is credited with adding greater nuance to the song, the "Financial Times" citing their recording as transforming the song from carefree optimism to "an exhortation to keep going in the face of tragedy" and noting that Bradfield's voice "added grit to the facile lyric". The group often spent their downtime on the tour bus watching the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", and incorporated the song into live sets. After the disappearance of lyricist Richey Edwards, the band decided to continue rather than split up. Having booked studio time in France
Robert Redford the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of "The Old Man & the Gun", which was released in September 2018. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for "Downhill Racer". His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner "Ordinary People", a drama about