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"(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie" is a song from rock band Slade which was released as the lead single in late 1982, from the album ''The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome'', which would not be released until the end of 1983, along with its 1984 American counterpart ''Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply''. The song was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. It was produced solely by Lea. ==Background== Following the band's solid commercial success with the 1981 album ''Till Deaf Do Us Part'', the band recorded a new studio album, and decided to release "(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie" from it. The single a month before the release of the band's third live album ''Slade on Stage'', and being released in November it attempted to appeal to the Christmas market. After gaining the interest of heavy metal fans with the comeback gig at the Reading Festival in 1980, the song was Slade's first ballad-styled tracks since the turn of the decade. Despite being a radio-friendly ballad, and a song that the band had high hopes for, the single only peaked at #50 in the UK, spending a total of seven weeks on the charts. Although it was not the big hit as expected by the band and their record label RCA, the following late 1983 single "My Oh My", another ballad, was a number two hit in the UK. The single fared better in Poland, where it ended up peaking at #2 in January 1983, lasting on the chart for nine weeks. The song also peaked at #29 on the multilingual commercial broadcaster Radio Luxembourg, lasting on the chart for two weeks. In the UK "(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie" debuted at #67 on 27 November, reaching its peak of #50 the following week. After that the song continued to stay within the 55-65 region for a month, before dropping to #85 on 8 January 1983 as its final week in the Top 100.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Official Charts Company - (And now - the waltz) C'est la vie by Slade Search )〕 ''The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome'' album would end up being released a whole year later in December 1983 - the longest period Slade had ever undergone without releasing new material. In that time though the band were still working behind the scenes, whilst Holder and Lea produced the Girlschool album ''Play Dirty''. In the Sounds magazine of 8 January 1983, an article, including interviews with the band, was published. The author Garry Bushell remarked that "one thing I've always liked about Slade is you never blanded out. Even the anthems were rowdy - you've never got away from, for want of a better word, that terrace feel, the raucousness"''.'' Lea responded by using "(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie" as an example, explaining that "we've tried to, but we can't (). When we wrote "C'est La Vie" we thought it was a ballad but when Dave Lee Travis played it he said "That's Slade and now for a ballad" and put Lionel Ritchie on and then we realised ours wasn't a ballad at all. It came over like four idiots trying to tear their way out of the speakers."〔 Bushell opinion'd that "C'est La Vie" deserved to desecrate the Dirty Thirty but actually fell short of the mid-fifties. It couldn't have helped to have three Slade singles out at the same time. "C'est La Vie" was the official RCA one, then Speed Records (run by Jim's brother Frank) released a picture disc version of an old live "Okey Cokey" recording, and natch Polydor put out "Merry Xmas Everybody" for the millionth time." Still, in an interview in Record Mirror magazine published 15 January 1983, the band revealed that they hoped to release a new studio album shortly, and that they hoped their current tour will consolidate on the success of the "(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie" single.〔 In the Sounds magazine of 10 December 1983, Bill Black produced an article on the band, where he asked Holder how it felt to be back in the chart running for the third time. Holder replied "It's good, but we've never really stopped working. It may have looked as if we disappeared after "Lock Up Your Daughters" but we released a single at the end of last year - "C'est La Vie" - which looked as if it was going to be quite a big hit but unfortunately it didn't get much above #50 in the charts. In addition to that we've done three nationwide tours and they all sold out."〔 Upon release of ''The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome'', Holder recalled the song and its inclusion on the album; "The whole album's very rocky though some of the tracks are more intricate than we've ever done before. We've also put "C'est La Vie" on it which we had out as a single a year ago and we had high hopes for it. Maybe we could resurge that at some point. But quite apart from that there's at least two other tracks that would make strong singles so we're confident about the future."〔 In the Slade International Fan Club Magazine of September–December 1986, the poll results were announced for the 1986 opinion poll based on Slade's material. For the top three best non-hit singles, "(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie" placed at #3.〔 In November 2005 on Holder's regular TV-reviewing slots on the BBC Radio 2 show The Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie show, Holder was asked to choose a track from the recently released compilation ''The Very Best of Slade''. To Radcliffe's surprise Holder chose "(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie". Holder reasoned the track, although not one of Slade's best known singles, showed off his voice really well.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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