The Rose

While searching for the song, The Rose by Bette Midler in the website and found that it is a soundtrack of a movie film with the same title. An American musical drama film directed by Mark Rydell and was released on November 9, 1979.

JANIS JOPLIN

The film tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star, modeled after the late Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) who was known as "The Queen of Rock and Roll" as well as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul".

Bette Midler stars as Mary Rose Foster in this somber drama who plays an ill-fated singer who struggles to cope with the constant pressures or rather succumbs to the pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless British manager,Campbell Rudge (Alan Bates) by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save her from self destruction, while her British manager is ultimately blamed for not preventing her inevitable fall. Her rock and roll lifestyle of drugs, sex, and rock and roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown. 

On October 4, 1970, she was found dead at the age of twenty-seven and the official cause of her death was an overdose of heroin. The story mirrors any one of a number of popular singers who have fallen victim to the excess of success.

Movie Trailer:

             

THE ROSE - Bette Midler

Some say love it is a river

That drowns the tender reed

Some say love it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger

An endless aching need

I say love it is a flower

And you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

It's the dream afraid of waking

That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

Who cannot seem to give

And the soul afraid of dying

That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely

And the road has been too long

And you think that love is only

For the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

Far beneath the bitter snows

Lies the seed

That with the sun's love

In the spring becomes the rose