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<ul><li><strong>Works, Volume 1</strong>&nbsp;was a double album with Keith Emerson the focus of the first side,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/greg-lake-of-emerson-lake-palmer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Greg Lake</a>&nbsp;the second,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/carl-palmer-of-emerson-lake-palmer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Carl Palmer</a>&nbsp;the third, and the entire band sharing equally on Side 4.</li><li><br></li><li> "C'est La Vie" was one of the songs Lake wrote for his side with help from lyricist Pete Sinfield, who was his bandmate in King Crimson. </li><li>Telling the story of the song, Lake said: "I used to live in Paris for a while. A very beautiful city. </li><li>I sometimes would go out walking in the streets there, and you'd often hear this instrument playing. </li><li>I don't know what they call it, really, but it's one of these barrel organ things you wind up. </li><li>It's the sort of sound, it's a bit like a Las Vegas casino. </li><li>It kind of lives with you.</li><li><br></li><li>Anyway, I'd heard this barrel organ playing. </li><li>And I walked on back home towards my apartment. </li><li>I went past this cafe and I heard the voice of Edith Piaf, the famous French lady singer. </li><li>And when I got back to the apartment I thought, I really would like to write a sort of French song with some French feeling. I don't really speak French, but I knew this phrase, 'c'est la vie,' that's life.</li><li> And so I thought, That would make a good idea for a song.</li><li><br></li><li>So I wrote this song, "C'est la Vie," and we recorded it and put it onto&nbsp;<strong>Works Volume I</strong>. </li><li>However, a couple of years later it was covered by a French singer called Johnny Hallyday. </li><li>And he's a sort of French Elvis Presley.</li><li> Anyway, he had a #1 hit with it in France, which as an Englishman, of course, gave me a great deal of pleasure."</li></ul><p><br></p>