Austrian rock and pop group Opus“known above all for the song Live is Life, said goodbye to 48 years of music career and with a benefit concert. The four musicians, led by the singer Herwig Rüdisser, were presented in Graz, southern Austria, after having offered in their long career more than 1,500 recitals.
Apart from the now legendary Live is Life (released in 1984), Opus had other international successes such as Eleven (1981) or Flyin ‘High (1982). “48 years of Opus is enough. We need a few more years for other things,” Rüdisser, 64, told the local press on the eve of the final concert. The group released sixteen albums in its long career, the last in 2020 under the title Opus Magnum.
More success with Maradona
They were also famous for making Diego Armando Maradona dance in the warm-up of a match with a stadium bursting; Of course, with Life is Life before the game of Naples, against Bayern Munich. Maradona was 10 of the Italian team.
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In the stadium where the game was going to take place, ‘Live is Life’ sounded and suddenly Maradona began to dance and do a few pirouettes with the ball. Sure, the cameras focused on him and they soon realized he was keeping up with the heating with the song.
That event happened on April 19, 1989 at the Olympic of Munich. It was the return of the semifinals of the Copa de la UEFA and the 2-2 qualified the Italian team, which would then face Stuttgart and ultimately take the title.
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