Donna Summer

Released: March 20, 1989

Songwriter: Pete Waterman Matt Aitken Mike Stock

Producer: Stock Aitken & Waterman

For too long she was feeling
That her love had lost it meaning
She was looking for a reason
Not to breakaway
But I don't think she can take it
And just friendship can't replace it
She'll be strong enough for two
Although it's hard for her to do
She'll breakaway
Ooh, ooh, ohh she'll breakaway

Forget about the bad times
Remember all the good times
Hold your head up high
And breakaway
Forget about the bad times
Remember all the good times
Hold your head up high

Ooh, ooh, ooh she'll breakaway

It's a secret she's been keeping
It's been eating at her heart
Wish I could find the words to tell you
But I don't know where to start
And when she looks into the future
She sees to many problems
There are so many reasons
She should pack up the past
And breakaway
Ooh, ooh, ooh she'll breakaway

Forget about the bad times
Remember all the good times
Hold your head up high
And breakaway
Forget about the bad times
Remember all the good times
Hold your head up high

Ooh, ooh, ooh she'll breakaway
She'll breakaway

But I don't think she can take it
And just friendship can't replace it
She'll be strong enough for two
Although it's hard for her to do
She'll breakaway
Ooh, ooh, ooh she'll breakaway

Forget about the bad times
Remember all the good times
Hold your head up high
And breakaway
Forget about the bad times
Remember all the good times
Hold your head up high

Ooh, ooh, ooh she'll breakaway
She'll breakaway
Ooh, ooh, ooh she'll breakaway
She'll breakaway
Ooh, ooh, ooh, she'll breakaway
She'll breakaway
Ooh, ooh, ooh breakaway
She'll breakaway
Breakaway

As the unquestioned queen of disco, the one and only Donna Summer lit up the late 70s and 80s with flashy, exuberant vocals and automatic earworms. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on Dec. 31, 1948, Summer moved to Germany after being cast in a Munich production of Hair. There, she happened to meet Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the trio conglomerated to form a dynamic music team. With Moroder, Summer forged together her first album, The Hostage, which reached moderate success in Northern Europe. Summer’s big break, however, would come later with the release of 1975’s sexual “Love to Love You Baby”, which became one of disco’s first mainstream hits and reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.

1977 came around with the concept album I Remember Yesterday, which featured the Top 10 single “I Feel Love”. The next year, Summer hit the silver screen with the movie Thank God It’s Friday, whose soundtrack featured one of her own the iconic “Last Dance.” This would later become one of the disco legends' signature songs. “Dance” would take home an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe, and it jumped to a peak of #3 on the charts.

Yet Summer’s illustrious career was far from finished – Summer’s first live album Live and More featured the single “MacArthur Park”, a melting ballad that was a cover of the Jimmy Webb ballad of the same name. “Park” became Summer’s first – and perhaps most memorable – No. 1 hit, and cemented her status as a vocalist as well as a performer. With the track, she became the first female in modern rock history to hold the top spot in both the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. 1979, though, would really be the peak of her career.

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