LES AMANTS DE PARIS

EDITH PIAF
COMPOSITEURES: EDDY MARNAY & LEO FERRE
PAYS: FRANCE
ALBUM: LES AMANTS DE PARIS - SINGLE
RECORD: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
ANNÉE: 1948
 
          Édith Giovanna Gassion, dite Édith Piaf, née le 19 décembre 1915 à Paris 20e et morte le 10 octobre 1963 à Grasse(Alpes-Maritimes), est une chanteuse, parolière, compositrice et actrice française.
           Surnommée à ses débuts «La Môme Piaf», elle est à l'origine de plusieurs succès devenus des classiques du répertoire, comme La Vie en rose, Non, je ne regrette rien, Hymne à l'amour, Mon légionnaire, La Foule, Milord, Mon Dieu ou encore L'Accordéoniste.
     Chanteuse à l'interprétation et à la voix saisissantes, elle a inspiré de nombreux compositeurs et a été le mentor de jeunes artistes tels qu'Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Les Compagnons de la chanson, Georges Moustaki, Charles Dumont... Elle acquiert une renommée internationale, mais sa fin de carrière est rendue difficile par de graves problèmes de santé; elle meurt à l’âge de 47 ans.
Les amants de Paris couchent sur ma chanson.
A Paris, les amants s'aiment à leur façon.
Les refrains que je leur dis,
C'est plus beau que les beaux jours.
Ça fait des tas de printemps et le printemps fait l'amour.
Mon couplet s'est perdu
Sur les bords d'un jardin.
On ne me l'a jamais rendu
Et pourtant, je sais bien
Que les amants de Paris m'ont volé mes chansons.
A Paris, les amants ont de drôles de façons
 
Les amants de Paris se font à Robinson
Quand on marque des points à coups d'accordéon.
Les amants de Paris vont changer de saison
En traînant par la main mon petit brin de chanson.
Y a plein d'or, plein de lilas
Et des yeux pour les voir.
D'habitude c'est comme ça
Que commencement les histoires.
Les amants de Paris se font à Robinson.
A Paris, les amants ont de drôles de façons.
 
J'ai la chaîne d'amour au bout de mes deux mains.
Y a des millions d'amants et je n'ai qu'un refrain.
On y voit tout autour les gars du monde entier
Qui donneraient bien le printemps pour venir s'aligner.
Pour eux c'est pas beaucoup
Car des beaux mois de mai,
J'en ai collé partout
Dans leurs calendriers
Les amants de Paris ont usé mes chansons.
A Paris, les amants s'aiment à leur façon.
 
Donnez-moi des chansons
Pour qu'on s'aime à Paris.

LOVE IS A GAME

ADELE
SONGWRITERS: ADELE LAURIE BLUE ADKINS & DEAN WYNTON JOSIAH COVER
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: 30
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2021
 
          30 is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Adele, released on 19 November 2021 by Columbia Records. As her first album since the release of her 2015 studio álbum 25 six years prior, 30 centres on Adele's divorce, motherhood, fame, heartache, acceptance, and hope. She wrote 30 between 2019 and 2021 with producers such as Greg Kurstin, Max Martin and Shellback, all of whom worked on 25 as well; new collaborators included Ludwig Göransson, and Inflo of the English band Sault.
        Musically, 30 is a pop, soul, and jazz record. It has been described as Adele's most creative work sonically, expanding on her past works by incorporating dance-pop and gospel elements. American jazz pianista Erroll Garner appears on the track "All Night Parking" as a guest act, marking the first time an artist is featured on a standard album by Adele. Upon release, 30 was met with widespread critical acclaim for its cinematic instrumentation, vocal performances, and introspective lyrics. It appeared on the 2021 year-end best-albums lists from various publications.
          The lead single, "Easy on Me", was released on 15 October 2021; it topped the charts in 27 territories. The second single, "Oh My God", charted in the top five in Europe and North America. An extensive marketing campaign was used to promote 30, including a CBS television concert special Adele One Night Only that aired in the United States on 14 November 2021, and an ITV special called An Audience with Adele in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2021. In addition, a Las Vegas concert residency titled Weekends with Adele was scheduled for 20 January–16 April 2022, and two back-to-back concerts are scheduled for 1 and 2 July 2022 at British Summer Time Hyde Park in London.
          The album reached number one in 24 countries, including the UK where it became Adele's fourth consecutive number-one album, making her the first act to debut all their albums atop the UK Albums chart; it garnered the highest first-week sales for an album by a female artist in the UK since Adele's own 25 and became 2021's best-seller in the country. In the US, it was Adele's third consecutive Billboard 200 number-one album, and the year's best-seller as well. 30 was the world's best-selling album of 2021, with over 5 million copies sold in the year. Additionally, Adele was the third best-selling artist of 2021 globally. 30 won British Album of the Year at the 42nd Brit Awards, making Adele the first solo artist in history to win the honour three times. 
All your expectations of my love are impossible
Surely, you know
That I'm not easy to hold
It's so sad how incapable
Of learning to grow I am
 
My heart speaks in puzzle and codes
I've been trying my whole life to solve
God only knows how I've cried
I can't take another defeat
A next time would be the ending of me
Now that I see
 
That love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (fooling)
What a cruel thing (cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
 
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling again (fooling)
What a cruel thing (cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
 
How unbelievable (unbelievable)
Of me to fall for the lies that I tell? (Lies I tell)
The dream that I sell (dream I sell)
When my heartache, it's inevitable (inevitable)
But I'm no good at doing it well
Not that I care (I don't care)
Why should anything about it be fair?
 
When love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (fooling)
What a cruel thing (cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
 
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling again (fooling)
What a cruel thing (cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
 
No amount of love
Can keep me satisfied (satisfied, satisfied)
I can't keep up (I can't keep up, I can't keep up)
When I keep changing my mind
(Change my mind, change my mind)
The feelings flood me to the heights of no compromise
 
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (fooling)
What a cruel thing (cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
 
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (fooling)
What a cruel thing (cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
 
I can love me
I can love again
I love me now like I loved him
I'm a fool for that
You know I, you know I'm gonna do it
Oh-oh-oh-oh
I'd do it all again, like I did it.

TUNNEL OF LOVE

DORIS DAY
SONGWRITERS: BOB ROBERTS & PATTI DORINE FISHER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TUNNEL OF LOVE
LABEL: PHILIPS RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1958
 
         Doris Day(born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922–May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two Nº 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.
         Day was one of the biggest film stars of the 1950s–1960s. Day's film career began during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas(1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane(1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling(1963) and The Thrill of It All(1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show(1968–1973).
          In 1989, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, she was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. The same year, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. As of 2020, she was one of eight record performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times.
          The Tunnel of Love is a 1958 romantic comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and starring Doris Day and Richard Widmark. The film follows a married suburban couple who, for reasons unknown, are unable to conceive a child and soon endure endless red tape on a path of adopting one. It is based on the 1957 hit Broadway play of the same name by Peter De Vries and Joseph Fields, which in turn was based on De Vries' 1954 book of the same name. The Tunnel of Love is the first film directed by Kelly in which he did not also appear. Day received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.
         The film was a box office disappointment, which Kelly attributed to audiences not accepting Widmark in a comedic role.
Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I choose
Sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo
And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam
And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am
 
In a screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light
She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night
I put a hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll
I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul
 
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
 
It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk
She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this
It's just a cake walk twisting baby step right up and say
Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play
 
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
 
Well it's been money for muscle another whirligig
Money for muscle and another girl I dig
Another hustle just to make it big
And rockaway rockaway
 
And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
 
She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of the dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me
Stay
 
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
 
And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
To rockaway rockaway from cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway
 
And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
Girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids.

EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL

COLDPLAY
SONGWRITERS: William Champion; Peter W. Allen; Adrienne Anderson; Brian Peter George Eno; Guy Berryman; Brian Peter Geoge Eno; Jonathan Buckland & Christopher Anthony Martin
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: MYLO XYLOTO
LABEL: PARLOPHONE RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 2011
 
        Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1996. They consist of vocalist and pianista Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer Will Champion and creative director Phil Harvey. They met at University College London and began playing music together from 1996 to 1998, first calling themselves Pectoralz and then Starfish.
          After releasing Safety EP independently in 1998, the band signed with Parlophone during the next year. Their debut album, Parachutes(2000), included the breakthrough hit "Yellow" and received a Brit Award for British Album of the Year, a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, as well as a Mercury Prize nomination. Their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head(2002), won the same accolades while also spawning the singles "Clocks" and "The Scientist", with the former winning a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The band's third album, X&Y(2005), was the best-selling of the year worldwide, topping the charts of over 30 countries. On Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), Coldplay achieved the distinction once again and explored new musical territory following the completion of what they considered a trilogy. It earned them a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and their first Album of the Year nomination, while title track "Viva la Vida" marked the first time a British group went number-one in both the United Kingdom and United States in the 21st century.
          Since then, Coldplay further diversified their sound with subsequent albums Mylo Xyloto(2011), Ghost Stories (2014), A Head Full of Dreams(2015), Everyday Life(2019) and Music of the Spheres (2021). Each one presented a specific theme and added new musical styles to the band's original repertoire, including electronica, ambient, pop, R&B, funk, classical, jazz fusion, and progressive rock. They have also been noted for dazzling, euphoric live performances, which critics have stated are when the band "come alive and make the most sense". To celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2018, they released a career-spanning documentary directed by Mat Whitecross, featuring previously unseen behind the scenes footage.
           Mylo Xyloto (pronounced/ˈmaɪloʊˈ zaɪlətoʊ/ MY-loh ZY-lə-toh) is the fifth studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released in late October 2011. The band worked closely with producer Brian Eno following their successful collaboration on Viva la Vida, the band's previous album. Mylo Xyloto is a concept album and a thematic rock opera.
         The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour on the planet Silencia, which has been overtaken by a totalitarian government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. His aim is to take sound and colour off the streets in hope to draw away "feeders", creatures that use such energy to hunt its prey. The album follows Mylo Xyloto, a "silencer", a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down "sparkers", people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. He encounters Fly, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. In interviews the band have said that the album follows a love story between Mylo and Xyloto, with them being separate characters. However, in the comics based on the album, Mylo Xyloto is the main protagonist and Fly is the sparker girl he encounters.
          The album received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its uplifting tone and new electronic sound; however, some found its material overproduced. "Paradise" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" received a total of three Grammy Award nominations in 2012, while the album and "Charlie Brown" received two further Grammy nominations in 2013. Internationally, Mylo Xyloto charted at number one in 34 countries. In the United Kingdom, Mylo Xyloto became Coldplay's fifth album to debut at number one, selling 208,000 units in its first week, and setting a one-week digital sales record with 83,000 copies sold. Mylo Xyloto broke an iTunes record for digital downloads sales by selling over 500,000 digital copies in a week. (Beyoncé's self-tited album and Adele's 25 topped this record in 2013 and 2015 respectively). Mylo Xyloto became Coldplay's third album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 447,000 units in its first week of sales. It was the UK's best-selling rock album of 2011, selling 908,000 copies. As of 2013, it has sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
I turn the music up
I got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Maybe the streets alight
Maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beatin' to my favorite song
 
And all the kids they dance
All the kids all night
Until Monday mornin' feels another life
I turn the music up
I'm on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight
 
I turn the music up
I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don't want to see another generation drop
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
 
Maybe I'm in the black
Maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart
 
As we saw, woah, this light
I swear you, emerge blinking into
To tell me it's alright
As we soar walls
Every siren is a symphony
And every tear's a waterfall
 
Is a waterfall, oh
Is a waterfall, oh-oh-oh
Is a, is a waterfall
Every tear
Is a waterfall, oh-oh-oh
 
So you can hurt
Hurt me bad
But still I'll raise the flag
 
Ooh
It was a wa-wa-wa-wa-waterfall
A wa-wa-wa-wa-waterfall
 
Every tear, every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear, every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear, every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear, every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear, every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall.