This performance was taped at the annual Dutch television show AVRO Platen Gala, 13 October 1984 recorded live in the Ahoy Hall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Born in 1944 to Hungarian parents, Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career in France as a singer, writer and producer of pop songs. In collaboration with Alain Boublil, he is the book co-writer and the composer of “La Révolution Française”, “Les Misérables”, “Miss Saigon” and “The Pirate Queen”. In 2001, he composed his first ballet score, “Wuthering Heights”, which was created by the Northern Ballet in 2002. A noteworthy deviation in Schönberg's career occurred in 2011 when he created the musical score for the ballet Cleopatra for the Northern Ballet. Schönberg's talent also reached the world of film when he was nominated for Best Original Song at the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards in 2012 for "Suddenly" from the film adaptation of “Les Misérables”, the musical movie. Throughout his illustrious career, Claude-Michel Schönberg has garnered numerous awards, including the Golden Globe, Grammy, and an honorary New York Pops gala concert at Carnegie Hall in recognition of his 40-year collaboration with Alain Boublil. music videos ❯ https://goo.gl/feVLNN More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ https://goo.gl/aICMxi More info on Wikipedia ❯ https://goo.gl/8s9Vj1 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.