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The 2007 film La Vie en Rose, a biopic of Piaf’s life, is named in reference to the song. Season 9, Episode 16 (2014) of How I Met Your Mother features Cristin Milioti singing La Vie en Rose. The song is a key plot point in the 1954 Billy Wilder film Sabrina starring Audrey Hepburn. Lady Gaga performs the song in the 2018 A Star is Born remake.
Hymne à l'amour" was translated into English by Piaf's protégé Eddie Constantine as "Hymn to Love", which was recorded by Piaf on her album La Vie En Rose / Édith Piaf Sings In English (1956). [3] This version was featured on Cyndi Lauper's 2003 album At Last. [4]
"La Vie en rose" Edith Piaf: 1945 Awarded a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998. [158] "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" Poison: 1988 3rd single from the band's 2nd album and their only US No. 1 [159] "Every Breath You Take" The Police: 1983 Written by Sting and featured on the band's final album [160] "Dior" Pop Smoke: 2020
In 1966 there were already over 100 different recordings of "La Mer", and it was considered to be France's best-selling song, together with Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose". [4] By the time of Trenet's death in 2001, there were more than 4,000 different recordings of it, [5] [6] with over 70 million copies sold in total. [7]
Another critic, Martin Roberts, wrote that the set "shows la Piaf in all of her many moods which range from extreme happiness to extreme grief, neither of which is vulgarly displayed." [ 2 ] Critic Herbert Kennedy Jr. opined: "There is a distressing uniformity both to the songs and the half-plaintive way they are sung.
The night closed out with a moving performance from contestant Xochitl Gomez and her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, who danced the waltz to Lady Gaga's rendition of "La Vie En Rose" from A Star Is Born.
In connection with the film about Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose (2007), Moustaki tells in an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (14 February 2007) about "Milord": "It was a song I had left in draft form until one day I found the scribbled sheet next to the typewriter Piaf had given me. I resumed to work with it.
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