🌺 Seasons in the sun - Westlife version cover by ERA

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Westlife is the boy band from Ireland topped the charts for the most consecutive times since their debut, and topped the charts for seven consecutive songs from their unprecedented first single. Westlife was active from 1998 to 2012 and reunited in 2018 after disbanding.


Seasons in the Sun" is an English-language adaptation of the 1961 Belgian song "Le Moribond" (in English "The Dying Man") by singer-songwriter Jacques Brel with lyrics rewritten in 1963 by American singer-poet Rod McKuen, portraying a dying man's farewell to his loved ones. It became a worldwide hit in 1974 for Canadian singer Terry Jacks and Westlife version of the song became a Christmas number one in the UK in 1999.

The first version of the song was recorded by Brel, who reportedly wrote it in a brothel in Tangiers. It tells of a man dying of a broken heart and shows him saying his last farewells to his close friend Emile, a priest friend, an acquaintance named Antoine, and his wife who has cheated on him numerous times with Antoine. Despite knowing of Antoine being his wife's lover, he wishes no ill upon him but tells him to take care of his wife.

American Rod McKuen translated the lyrics into English. In 1964, the Kingston Trio first recorded an English version of "Seasons in the Sun", which was later heard by Terry Jacks. Jacks recorded his rendition in Vancouver in 1973.

Jacks rewrote the lyrics, he justifies the rewriting by stating that he deemed the original version and its translations as "too macabre". The inspiration for the rewritten lyrics was a close friend of his who was suffering from acute leukemia and died four months later.

According to Jacks, the Beach Boys asked him to be their producer during the sessions for the band's album Surf's Up. On July 31, 1970 they attempted a rendition of the "Seasons in the Sun", but the session went badly, and the track was never finished.


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