Eurovision 1983 - Vivre - Guy Bonnet

The French entry for Eurovision 1983
Singer: Guy Bonnet
Song: Vivre

Category:

Music

Tags:

• eurovision
• 1983
• france
• guy
• bonnet
• vivre

[verkaforever]

Guy looks like Austin Powers.

[setheurovision94]

And he even dresses like him.

[nwlman]

wrong song definatley won, the problem was 1983 was such a great year for music and the standard was very good here as well but Israel should have won in 1983.

[Aideen73]

1983 was the year were loads and loads of people felt the wonrg song won. I do remember it, I was almost 10 at the time.

Didn't remember this one, but it is certainly an exellent song.

[Eurafrican]

Il avait un tellement spécial talent, sa voix...

Mais il ressemble trop a un geek!

[chansonetmoi]

@timbique

Ja, er schreibt und singt m.E. auffallend schöne Chansons

(wie lucas5life sagt: ...une poésie très francaise),

auch wenn er nicht so eine überragende Stimme wie manch

ein anderer Chansonnier hat.

[timbique]

By far one of my very favourites of France, ever...

[lucas5life]

Il y a beaucoup d ' émotions dans cette chanson, une poésie tres française...Guy Bonnet chante bien et il semble etre un vrai musicien mais question look meme pour les années 80, il aurait pu faire mieux! Ca a du le desservir lors du concours... reste cette belle chanson...

[wallborrow]

pourquoi merde ils mettent toujours une foutue description anglaise pour une vidéo en français ??????

[edmund184]

@spannamatronic I agree: 1983 is one of the great Eurovision years. Si La Vie won because it was accessible. This song is better but too serious to appeal to a mass audience. The belgian entry was similarly left field and brilliant but did badly.

[Hisokaa]

c'est fou, j'aime beaucoup

[spannamatronic]

The more I see of 1983, the more baffled I am that "Si la Vie" won. There was so much class that year. Probably the best for songs and the orchestra were definitely the best, although the production wasn't great. Although this is a very French entry, it's more interesting than most.

[dunedainsoul]

This song deserved to be in the top 3 songs of that eurovision. It was excelend but he didnt finish the song good, I think that is why he didnt get in the first 3

[Kamya13]

J'ai fait des spectacles avec lui avec mon groupe de danse, il y a quelques années, j'en garde d'excellent souvenirs il n'a pas connu la gloire esperée apres cette chanson, il est plus restée dans l'ombre en tant que compositeur, mais il est pas mal connu dans sa région natale, la provence.

[setheurovision94]

Hm, okay, I see. But I don't personally see any likeness between the two songs, and that was more or less what I meant.

[guraknugen]

I didn't say it was "on par with" this one, just that it sounded a bit like it. A few notes in the beginning is the same (as far as I remember, I didn't hear the Russian thing since they won, so my memory of it isn't that fresh right now). It was just that when I heard the Russian song, I thought "this sounds like Vivre from the ESC 1983". Of course, a few seconds later there was big differences from this song. Otherwise they would probably not have got away with it...

[setheurovision94]

No way, "Believe" was not at all on par with this, in any way (vocal, instrumentation, melody)!

[RlCARDA]

Wunderschönes Lied, sehr gefühlvoll, ein richtiges französisches Chanson.

Merci.

[jaxlarus]

Reverie...

[guraknugen]

Sounds a bit like the Russian winner from a few minutes ago... :P

[chatnutella]

merci depuis que je cherche cette chanson super souvenir

[setheurovision94]

Yes, totally agree, this is one my very favourites from this year. At the beginning this song held my attention and it's grown for me with every listening, and as such it's a very strong melody, I think.

[robtmircea]

i love how the piece speeds up and then slows down

guaranteed the best song from esc1983...actually ty with israel...

[Dagbrandth]

I would love to own the original recording on mp3. Anyone??

[robtmircea]

wow that was so great

france....12 points from romania