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) music video. "High Hopes" and "Without You" were featured on another single, which was rare and hard to find. In 2013, Springsteen re-recorded "High Hopes" to be the first single off of his eighteenth studio album, "High Hopes" which was released in January 2014. 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.