Remember a song

[freddie1972]

There was a song in the 90's where it was a bloke talking through out the song. All i can remember of it was he was saying things you have to do before you die like live in NY but leave before your to hard or live in LA but leave before you become soft ...... any ideas what and who sang this song

[JOHNNYxCASH]

Hi,

Artist:- Bax Luhrmann
Track:- Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - The Sunscreen Song (Class of '99)

You can listen to it here:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xavFb4WH7o0

[deso]

It was "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" or "The Speech Song (Graduation 1999)" by Baz Luhrman.

[JOHNNYxCASH]

Sorry the artist is Baz Luhrmann, not Bax Luhrmann!!!

[freddie1972]

Thank you everyone

[jenstar]

Speaking of which, as Baz Luhrmann isn't a musician, didn't write it and wasn't the vocalist, just the heck DID he do on "his" record... if he did anything at all?

[tiny e.a]

The words were from an article written by a journalist in new york or somewhere and the music is a remix of Everydody's Free (To Feel Good) which featured in Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet. Don't know who spoke it though.

[tiny e.a]

Baz Luhrmann put all the bits of the song together I think.
Information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Fre e_%28to_Wear_Sunscreen%29

[craigiep]

Baz is much more famously a film writer/director - the man behind Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge, etc. His films carry memorable slogans: In Strictly Ballroom: A life lived in fear... ...is a life half lived. And in Moulin Rouge: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.

[Greedyfly]

One of the most surreal singles in memory, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" has an even stranger story than you'd imagine: in 1998, a student lifted the text of an article columnist Mary Schmich had written for the Chicago Tribune and started sending it around the world, crediting it as a commencement speech given at MIT by Kurt Vonnegut. Film director Baz Luhrmann (who had taken a big part in designing the soundscapes of his films Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) got his hands on it just as he was working on a remix of Rozalla's 1992 dance hit "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)."