Background
This album was launched after a highly successful American-style series of shows that Dalida performed at the Palais des Sports theatre in France. She was the first female singer to perform this kind of show at the venue with twelve costume changes and eleven dancers. All the show's 18 nights were sell-outs.
The album, like the show, was highly successful and it was a critical and commercial success for Dalida that turned her image through it into a more sexy and Diva like image, securing her as the queen of disco in France. Learning dance routines for over three months with John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever choreographer Lester Wilson, Dalida (aged 47 at the time) reinvented herself through this show and once more attracted a new generation of fans whilst keeping her loyal older followers happy.
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