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Artist: Daniel Balavoine
Author: Michel Berger
Label: WEA
Year: 1978
In Michel Berger's rock opera Starmania. Balavoine was a French singer who died in the same helicopter crash with Paris-Dakar race organizer Thierry Sabine.
Covers:
Elaine Paige [as Only The Very Best, translated by Tim Rice on album Love Can Do That]
Peter Kingsbery [idem in Tycoon, Starmania's English version; hit in Fr]
Peter Kingsbery was part of Cock Robin, a popular band in France, reason why Michel Berger asked him to collaborate on an English version of his rock opera, materialized thanks to Only The Very Best's success. See also: Un Garçon pas comme les autres and Le Monde est stone.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)