Live Is Life

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This article is about the Opus song. For the Noah and the Whale song, see Life Is Life (song). For the 2021 film, see Live Is Life (film).
"Live Is Life"
Live is life (2).jpg
Single by Opus
from the album Live Is Life/
Up and Down (U.S. version)
B-side
  • "Again and Again"
  • "Up and Down"
Released 1984[1]
Genre Reggae[2]
Length 4:14
Label
  • Polydor
  • OK
Songwriter(s)
  • Ewald Pfleger
  • Kurt Rene Plisnier
  • Gunter Grasmuck
  • Niki Gruber
  • Herwig Rüdisser
Producer(s) Peter Müller
Script error: The function "ucfirst" does not exist. singles chronology
"Flying High"
(1982)		 "Live Is Life"
(1984)		 "Flyin' High (Live Version)"
(1985)
{{{This album}}}

"Live Is Life" is a 1984 song by Austrian pop rock band Opus. It was released as the first single from their first live album, Live Is Life (1984), and was also included on the US version of their fourth studio album, Up and Down (1984). The song was a European number-one hit in the summer of 1985, and also reached number one in Canada and the top 40 in the US in 1986. It has been covered by many artists.

Background and chart performance

After having released several singles, "Live Is Life" achieved huge success in 1985, topping the charts of many countries, including Austria (eight weeks), West Germany, France (seven weeks) and Sweden (four weeks).

The song was created during a concert in Oberwart, on 2 September 1984, while the group celebrated its eleventh anniversary. It was recorded in a live version with the audience singing along in the verses. In the lyrics, the song expresses "the enthusiastic attachment of the group to the stage".[3] The song was performed during the 1985 charity campaign, "Austria für Afrika".

Maradona's warm up

On 19 April 1989, during the warming up in Munich before the UEFA Cup semi-final return between FC Bayern Munich and S.S.C. Napoli, Diego Maradona performed an impromptu keepie uppie exhibition synchronized to the rhythm of "Live Is Life", as the song happened to be playing over the stadium's loudspeakers during warm-ups.

Some confusion persists by those who dispute that it took place in Munich. Among others, Jürgen Klinsmann claimed that it happened during the final in Stuttgart:

There were 70,000 people in the stadium and Maradona went on the field. We’re on the other side of the field, warming up like Germans: seriously, focused. There's music playing, the song "Live is Life", and to the rhythm of the song Maradona started juggling the ball. So we stopped our warm-up. What's this guy doing? He's juggling off his shoulders. And we couldn't warm up anymore because we had to watch this guy.[4]

Belgian sports anchor Frank Raes, who edited the video and distributed it via YouTube, has asserted that this warm up took place just before the semifinal in Munich. By 2013, Raes' video clip had garnered almost two million views on YouTube.[4] The 25th anniversary of Maradona's warming up was noted internationally, with newspapers commenting on his skills and on the transformative effect he had on Napoli and southern Italy.[5][6]

Personnel

  • Herwig Rüdisser – lead vocals
  • Ewald Pfleger – guitar, vocals
  • Niki Gruber – bass, vocals
  • Kurt-René Plisnier – keyboard, vocals
  • Günter Grasmuck – drums
  • Günter Timischl – percussion, vocals

Track listings

Charts and sales

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[34] 2× Platinum 20,000
France (SNEP)[35] Gold 500,000
Germany (BVMI)[36] Gold 250,000
Italy (FIMI)[37] Gold 25,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[38] Gold 10,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[39] Silver 250,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone
double-daggersales/streaming figures based on certification alone

Hermes House Band version

"Live Is Life (Here We Go)"
Live is life (HHB).jpg
Single by Hermes House Band featuring DJ Ötzi
from the album Today Is the Day
B-side "Remix"
Released 2002
Genre Europop
Length 3:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Ewald Pfleger
  • Kurt Rene Plisnier
  • Gunter Grasmuck
  • Niki Gruber
  • Herwig Rüdisser
Producer(s)
  • Klaus Biedermann
  • Jim Binapfl
  • Jake Buck
  • Mark Duran
  • John Lehmkuhl
  • Claus Marcus
  • Christian Seitz
Hermes House Band singles chronology
"Que sera sera"
(2001)		 "Live Is Life (Here We Go)"
(2002)		 "Those Were the Days"
(2003)

The Hermes House Band and DJ Ötzi released a version of the song in 2002. The single had its highest peak position in France, where it reached number two for five weeks.[40] The song was used as a soundtrack for the German youth film Das Jahr der ersten Küsse.[41] As of August 2014, the song was the 23rd best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 537,000 units sold.[42]

Track listings

  • CD single
  1. "Live Is Life (Here We Go)" (Here We Go/video mix) – 3:30
  2. "Live Is Life (Here We Go)" (jump mix) – 3:33
  • CD maxi
  1. "Live Is Life (Here We Go)" (Here We Go/video mix) – 3:30
  2. "Live Is Life (Here We Go)" (jump mix) – 3:33
  3. "Football's Coming Home" (three lions) (radio) by Hermes House Band – 3:48
  4. "Everytime You Touch Me" (fireplace mix) by Hermes House Band – 3:21
  5. "Hey Mama" by Hermes House Band – 3:10
  6. Enhanced Multimediatrack : "Live Is Life" – 3:30

Charts and sales

Other cover versions

The Slovenian art collective Laibach recorded two retitled versions of the song for their 1987 album Opus Dei, one in English which was used as the album's title track, and the other in German under the name "Leben heisst Leben". Both were arranged in a distinctly darker and militaristic style typical of the group's music. The song, along with their cover of Queen's "One Vision" on the same LP, gained the band mainstream airplay on outlets including MTV and The Chart Show.[59]

The song was covered by Stargo, whose version reached number 10 in France in 1985.[60] Sofia Carson's "Love Is the Name" features an interpolation of "Live Is Life".[61]

The song was also adapted by Liverpool F.C. fans as a football chant about their then manager Jürgen Klopp early in his tenure at the club.[62]

See also

References

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