Live Is Life

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"
Single by Opus
from the album Live Is Life/
Up and Down (U.S. version)
B-side
  • "Again and Again"
  • "Up and Down"
Released1984[1]
GenrePop rock, AOR
Length4:14
Label
  • Polydor
  • OK
Songwriter(s)
  • Ewald Pfleger
  • Kurt Rene Plisnier
  • Gunter Grasmuck
  • Niki Gruber
  • Herwig Rüdisser
Producer(s)Peter Müller
Opus singles chronology
"Flying High"
(1982) 		"Live Is Life"
(1984) 		"Flyin' High (Live Version)"
(1985)
Gimme Love
(1992)
The Power of Live Is Life
(1994)
Live Is Life 08
(2008)
Alternative covers
Austrian release

"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. The title is sometimes mistaken as "Life Is Life":[2] German phonology has final-obstruent devoicing, so that the word "live" sounds like "life".

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AUT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bromley, Tom (2006). We Could Have Been the Wombles: The Weird and Wonderful World of One-Hit Wonders. Penguin. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-14-101711-2.