OUT OF AFRICA - MERYL STREEP, ROBERT REDFORD - ALAN PARSONS PROJEC The Turn of a Friendly Card PIANO

OUT OF AFRICA is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and filmed in 1984. Streep played Karen Blixen, Redford played Denys Finch Hatton, and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film include Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole, Malick Bowens as Farah, Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief, Michael Gough as Lord Delamere, Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model and actress Iman as Mariammo. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It was also a commercial success and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Pollack.
"POŻEGNANIE Z AFRYKĄ" amerykański melodramat z 1985 roku w reżyserii Sydneya Pollacka[. Powstał na podstawie utworów Pożegnanie z Afryką, Cienie na trawie oraz Listów z Afryki autorstwa Karen Blixen, wydanych pod pseudonimem Isak Dinesen, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller Judith Thurman oraz Silence Will Speak Errola Trzebinskiego[potrzebny przypis. Film opowiada o losach Karen Blixen, prowadzącej plantację kawy w Kenii.
PIOTR SZCZEPANIK studiował historię sztuki na Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim i tam rozpoczął działalność artystyczną w kabarecie „Czart”. Debiutował w 1963 na Festiwalu Piosenki Studenckiej w Krakowie. Znany jest z takich przebojów jak Żółte kalendarze (autor tekstu: Jerzy Miller), Kochać, Goniąc kormorany (autorem obu tekstów jest Andrzej Tylczyński), Puste koperty, Zabawa podmiejska, NIGDY WIĘCEJ i innych.

The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band the Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980 by Arista Records. The title piece, which appears on side 2 of the LP, is a 16-minute suite broken up into five tracks. The Turn of a Friendly Card spawned the hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead vocal appearance. An edited version of the title piece combining the opening and ending parts of the suite was also released as a single along with an official video.
As with the band's previous albums, The Turn of a Friendly Card is a concept album with its theme focused on the gambling industry and the fate of gamblers, with more than one reference to Las Vegas (e.g. "there's a sign in the desert that lies to the west" from the title piece). Musically, the album is more melodic and accessible than the band's previous work.
Up to this album, all Alan Parsons Project albums had been packaged in gatefold sleeves. Increasing budgetary constraints of record companies made The Turn of a Friendly Card the beginning of all subsequently released Alan Parsons Project albums to be single-sleeve packaged.
The album was recorded in a record short time of two weeks in Paris. Usually the Alan Parsons Project would take many months to record an album.