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,
The Valentine Brothers which reached no. 28 on the R&B chart. Their final album, "Picture This", was released in 1987. Billy Valentine also performed in the 1980s on the soundtracks of the films "Champions Forever" and "The Five Heartbeats", before joining the show "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. He has also worked as a demo recording artist and songwriter, and as a singer in Los Angeles clubs. Since 2004 he has sung on the soundtrack of the hit TV series "Boston Legal". The Valentine Brothers The Valentine Brothers were an American recording act in the