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Reality- Love Pearls Unlimited Lyrics (Various Artist) Original Song by Richard Sanderson
Slow Dance Party - All Time Favorites (2008)
"Reality" is a song performed by English singer Richard Sanderson. It was released in 1980 as an original soundtrack to the popular 1980 French film La Boum, which starred French actress Sophie Marceau (who later starred in most popular films such as Academy Award-winning Braveheart and James Bond franchise The World Is Not Enough). It was also served as theme song to 2011 Korean film Sunny.
Musically, Reality is a ballad, somewhat called as an adult-contemporary song, consisted of synthesizers and guitar riffs which denoted as a soft-rock hit. It was composed by Vladimir Cosma, written by Jeff Jordan and produced by Pierre Richard Muller. Between 1980 and 1982, then to 1987 for it was re-released, it became a successful major hit in Europe and Asia, topping the charts in fifteen countries including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Finland and Switzerland and was able to sell more than eight million copies worldwide, making it as one of the best-selling singles of all time. This song lead Richard Sanderson to stardom which he made more hits with Cosma such as Your Eyes, She's a Lady, and Sun.
Reality is a very popular song in the 1980s, also became a popular slow dance hymn. The song has been covered many times by a lot of artists, and it even has a Spanish version (Mi realidad). On DSDS, the German edition of American Idol, the song has been sung multiple times. In the film La Boum, it also appeared a lot of times (usually during the actors' romantic scenes), or sung by Sanderson, or in an instrumental version, as it is the film's main theme song. In the film's 1982 sequel La Boum 2, the main song changed as Your Eyes performed by Cook da Books. Because Reality has the same Key in Go On Forever (another song played in the last part of the film, from the La Boum soundtrack which was sung by Sanderson and Chantal Curtis), both songs are musically linked at the end of the film.
The La Boum soundtrack album which features the song Reality was made available on iTunes in 2009 by Larghetto
Met you by surprise,
I didn't realize
that my life would change forever
Saw you standing there,
I didn't know I cared
there was something special in the air
Dreams are my reality,
the only kind of real fantasy
Illusions are a common thing
I try to live in dreams
It seems as if it's meant to be
Dreams are my reality,
a different kind of reality
I dream of loving in the night
And loving seems alright
Although it's only fantasy
If you do exist,
honey don't resist
show me a new way of loving
Tell me that it's true,
show me what to do
I feel something special about you
Dreams are my reality,
the only kind of reality
may be my foolishness has past
And may be now at last
I'll see how a real thing can be
Dreams are my reality,
a wonderous world where I like to be
I dream of holding you all night
and holding you seems right
perhaps that's my reality
Met you by surprise,
I didn't realize
that my life would change forever
Tell me that it's true,
feelings that are cue
I feel something special about you
Dreams are my reality,
a wonderous world where I like to be
Illusions are a common thing
I try to live in dreams
although it's only fantasy
Dreams are my reality,
I like to dream of you close to me
I dream of loving in the night
and loving you seems right
Perhaps that's my reality
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