Born to Be Alive
File:Born To Be Alive cover.jpg
Studio album by Patrick Hernandez
Released 1979
Genre Disco
Label Columbia
Patrick Hernandez chronology
- Born to Be Alive
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Born to Be Alive is a 1979 album by French singer Patrick Hernandez and also a song on this album.

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Song information [link]

The album's title track, written by Hernandez, was a significant worldwide pop hit and also hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. Written first as a hard-rock song, "Born to Be Alive" was also covered by pop-punk group Los Nikis, with lyrics consisting just of repetitions of Me voy a Benidorm. This song was also covered by Nekromantix and Roberto Blanco.

Initially, no producer wanted to release the song, but after prospecting all the major names, Hernandez, who recorded the song in Belgium, found a little-known producer in Italy.

Critical reception and chart performance [link]

"Born to Be Alive" first became a hit in France, and has become one of the biggest singles in that country.[2] The song also gained gold status in the USA.[3] After that single hit record, he dropped out of the music businesss, making do with an occasional TV appearance.

In popular culture [link]

"Born to Be Alive" was also covered in the Pump It Up series of rhythm dance video games. The song was also featured in the 1997 film Vegas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid. A cover of the song also featured on a 2011 advert for Diesel's "Fuel for Life" perfume range.

A music video set to the song using footage from Adolf Hitler's many rallies and speeches became a viral hit on the internet.

Track listing [link]

  1. "Born to Be Alive"
  2. "You Turn Me On"
  3. "It Comes So Easy"
  4. "Disco Queen"
  5. "Show Me the Way You Kiss"
  6. "I Give You Rendezvous"
Preceded by
"Hot Stuff" / "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer		 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
July 14, 1979 - July 28, 1979		 Succeeded by
"I've Got the Next Dance" by Deniece Williams
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References [link]

  1. ^ Bret Adams. "Allmusic review". Rovi Corporation. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r66917. Retrieved 2010-11-22. 
  2. ^ "List of best-selling singles in France". Infodisc. https://www.infodisc.fr/S_ToutTemps.php. Retrieved 2010-11-22. 
  3. ^ "RIAA gold platinum searchable database". RIAA. https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=Hernandez,%20Patrick. Retrieved 2011-09-21. 

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Born To Be Alive

by: Dr. Calypso

We were born to be alive
We were born to be alive
Born, born to be alive
(Won't you be alive)
You see you were born
Born, born
(Born to be alive)
People ask me why
I never find a place to stop
And settle down, down, down
But I never wanted all those things
People need to justify
Their lives, lives, lives
You see you were
Born, born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were
Born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
It's good to be alive
To be alive
To be alive
It's good to be alive
To be alive
To be alive
It's good to be alive
Time was on my side
When I was running down the street
It was so fine, fine, fine
A suitcase and an old guitar
And something new to occupy
My mind, mind, mind
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(To be alive)
Born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)




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