Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. Wondering what has happened to her youth and feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall while preparing an evening meal of egg and chips for her emotionally distant husband. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip-for-two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen,
Blood Brothers (EP) Blood Brothers (EP) Blood Brothers is a five-song EP by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, released in 1996. The EP was originally released along with a film, also titled "Blood Brothers", which documented the 1995 temporary reuniting of Springsteen with the band to record extra tracks for his "Greatest Hits" release of that year. Long out of print, the EP was re-released in January 2014 to ITunes, Spotify and other download sites. Four of the five songs on the EP were written and recorded in 1995 during the band's "Greatest Hits" sessions while "Murder Incorporated" was recorded live