A Hazy Shade of Winter song as "one of [Simon and Garfunkel's] best songs, and certainly one of the toughest and more rock-oriented". In 1987, the Bangles were approached to record a song for the soundtrack of the film "Less Than Zero". They chose to record a cover of "A Hazy Shade of Winter", which they had been performing live since at least as far back as March 1983. Their cover, simply titled "Hazy Shade of Winter", was a harder-edged rock song that removed most of the bridge section. The record, like the rest of the soundtrack album, was produced by Rick Rubin. After a
Winter of Our Dreams the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called "Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain" about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s radical turned yuppie. The film was never made but the former radical character was re used in "Winter of Our Dreams". There were three weeks of rehearsals and five weeks of shooting in Kings Cross and Balmain. "Winter of Our Dreams" was popular, grossing $959,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $3,107,160 in 2009 dollars. Winter of Our Dreams Winter of Our Dreams is a 1981 Australian