Richard Sanderson

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Richard Sanderson (born 5 March 1953 in Taplow) is an English singer, best known for his hit songs "Reality", "So Many Ways" and "She's a Lady".

Born in England to a Scottish drum-playing father and a French accordionist mother, he was instilled with a love of music at a young age, and soon become a musician himself.

He started playing classical music on the piano at five years of age. At fifteen, he studied guitar and two years later became the organ player of a local rock band, Lover's Love. The band released four singles, one of them being Youth Has Gone (Amour De Papier), a song that he would revisit years later, Find a Reason Why.[clarification needed] Three years later he became the official pianist of Nancy Hollaway and David Christie. At twenty one he formed his own band and played in hotels all around the world. He then left for the United States and played with different bands while studying harmony and orchestration at the Berklee College of Music.

At twenty five, he returned to England and was hired at the famous Trident recording studio. Under Vogue Records he released his first solo single Un Vent de Folie under the name Richard Lory. Then he released No Stickers Please in 1979, his first album. At Trident studio, he met famous film composer Vladimir Cosma and was selected to perform the main theme of the hit movie La Boum starring Sophie Marceau. He is the voice of the songs "Reality", "Murky Turkey", and "Go On Forever". The songs appeared on the film soundtrack album and as singles with other songs of the film.

The song Reality became a number one hit in fifteen countries, including France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland and sold eight million copies all around Europe and Asia. Reality is well known in Germany and it has been covered multiple times on DSDS, the German version of American Idol.

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"Reality" is a song performed by English singer Richard Sanderson. It was released in 1980 as part of the soundtrack to the popular 1980 French film La Boum, which starred French actress Sophie Marceau (who later starred in popular films such as Academy Award-winning Braveheart and James Bond franchise The World Is Not Enough). It was also served as the theme song to the 2011 Korean film Sunny.

Musically, "Reality" is a ballad, sometimes called an adult-contemporary song, and consists of synthesizers and guitar riffs which cause it to be classified under the soft-rock genre. It was composed by Vladimir Cosma, written by Jeff Jordan and produced by Pierre Richard Muller. Between 1980 and 1982, then in 1987 after its re-release, it became a major hit in Europe and Asia, topping the charts in fifteen countries including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Finland and Switzerland and selling more than eight million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. The song led Richard Sanderson to stardom, giving him more hits with Cosma such as "Your Eyes", "She's a Lady", and "Sun".

"Reality" has been covered many times by various artists, including one singing a Spanish version of the song ("Mi realidad"). On DSDS, the German equivalent of American Idol, the song has been sung multiple times. In the film La Boum, it also appears frequently (usually during the actors' romantic scenes),

being the film's main theme song. For the film's 1982 sequel, La Boum 2, the main song was changed to "Your Eyes", performed by Cook da Books. Because "Reality" has the same key as "Go On Forever" (another song played in the last part of the film, from the La Boum soundtrack and sung by Sanderson and Chantal Curtis), both songs are musically linked at the end of the film.

The La Boum soundtrack album, which features the song "Reality", was made available on iTunes in 2009 by Larghetto.