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Revision as of 06:25, 28 January 2007 by Chester320 (talk | contribs) (Added a link for the Muppet Show performance, a paragraph about the lyrics)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Windmills of Your Mind is a song with words & music by Alan, Marilyn Bergman, & Michel Legrand and performed by Noel Harrison for the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968.
Another version of the song, performed by Sting, was used in the 1999 remake of the same film.
The song relates the mental state of a person after a romantic break-up, illustrating the way an emotionally distraught person's thoughts and memories can run in circles. With its succession of similes ("Like a circle in a spiral/Like a wheel within a wheel"), hypnotic rythms and complex imagery, it is a song that can "stick in your head." The lyrics even refer to this phenomenon: in among a collection of disjointed memories is "a fragment of this song."
External links
- Sting Lyrics - Windmills of Your Mind Lyrics
- The Windmills Of Your Mind by Noel Harrison at Songfacts
- Entry in The Muppet Wiki about a performance on The Muppet Show.
| Preceded by"Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle | Academy Award for Best Original Song 1968 |
Succeeded by"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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