"Minnelli, Ronstadt and Zadora: Taking a Different Tack". "New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Paul Oakenfold Thrive Despite Cold Temps As 'Unity Tour' Hits Chicago". ^ Stephen Sondheim, "Follies" Finishing the Hat (New York: Alfred A."The End of Ever After" Reading Stephen Sondheim A Collection of Critical Essays, Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 0-8153-2832-X, p. 'Follies' Art isn't easy: the theater of Stephen Sondheim, Da Capo Press, 1992, ISBN 8-9, pp. ^ a b " Follies, 1971 Broadway Production", accessed June 7, 2011.List of performances on Top of the Pops."Losing My Mind" (extended remix) – 7:01.Joe Brown from The Washington Post wrote, "Minnelli utterly misses the song's irony and delicacy, playing it instead as if she's literally going nuts, complete with a mid-song electronic freak-out fugue and a spoken soliloquy, guaranteed to raise a camp clamor on the dance floor." Track listings Bernard from Number One described the singer's cover version of "Losing My Mind" as "high energy".
Critical reception ĭavid Giles from Music Week constated that Minnelli is "brought back to life" by the Pet Shop Boys on the track. The Pet Shop Boys also performed the song as part of their 2022 tours Dreamworld in Europe and Unity Tour (with New Order) in the United States. This demo version contains a scream that Minnelli opted not to include on her release. The Pet Shop Boys demo version of "Losing My Mind" (which has Neil Tennant singing the vocal) was later remixed and released as a B-side on the Pet Shop Boys' single, " Jealousy". It also peaked at number twenty-six on the American dance chart. The 12" release peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Maxi Singles Sales chart. It was the lead single from her 1989 studio album, Results, produced by Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn. In Ireland, Minnelli's version reached number two. In the UK Singles Chart, the most successful version has been by American singer and actress Liza Minnelli, reaching number six. In the first literary resume of his career, Finishing the Hat, Sondheim reveals that the song is a pastiche of George and Ira Gershwin's " The Man I Love".
The "cute" Sally from Phoenix "has become a languid torch singer." She repeats her lines, reflecting "the paralysis about which she sings.the phrase 'It's like I'm losing my mind' occurs no less than six times." explores the extent to which she has lost herself in this make-believe world of undying desire." As originally staged, Sally comes onstage in a "clinging, beaded silver" dress, holding a microphone. The song "expresses her preoccupation with Ben, her idealized lover.With infinite attention to detail, Sondheim leads Sally from sunrise to sleepless night, revealing that every second of her existence is defined by her longing.the number. The song was written as a torch song for the character of Sally to sing in the "Loveland" portion of the musical. Other performers who have sung the song in later productions of Follies include Barbara Cook (1985), Julia McKenzie (1987), Donna McKechnie (1998), Judith Ivey (2001), Victoria Clark (2007), Bernadette Peters (2011) and Imelda Staunton (2017). "Losing My Mind" was first performed by Dorothy Collins in the role of Sally Durant Plummer in the original Broadway production of Follies. "Losing My Mind" has been covered by many artists over the years. The song became a popular top ten hit for singer and actress Liza Minnelli in 1989 on the UK Singles Chart and in Europe. " Losing My Mind" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim originally for the 1971 musical Follies for the character of a former showgirl, Sally Durant Plummer.
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