Céline Dion ~ Memory | Live Performance (1987) with Lyrics

Céline Dion sings "Memory" from the well-known "Cats" in 1987. (It's a bliss this excellent performance was saved in such a good audio and video quality!)

The then 19-year-old future star showed up to the popular TV show, 'L’autobus du Show Business' and though she couldn’t speak a word of English at the time, she still managed to memorize English songs simply by the phonetical sounds of each word. And when you see her heartbreaking performance with the knowledge that she doesn’t even understand exactly what she’s saying, it makes it even more powerful.

Dressed up as the beautiful Grizabella from the mega-popular Broadway hit, Céline Dion manages to tell the whole story while completely nailing the difficult vocals of this intense song.

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[suetruett]

at 18 I didn't know anything much less what my life was going to be. Celine had her head on straight at that point. She was and did definitely make her mark. On all of us!! That was nothing short of incredible. This is musical history, in my opinion...

[heyseamonkey]

You know how in the 90s, there was a pop cover at the end of Disney movies of a song from the movie? If Cats did a movie in the 90s, this should be it

[billiswilling]

everybody shut up, the queen is singing!!! Whoever says this isn't heartfelt just sounds envious, you know how hard it is and how much time it takes to sing like this, even if you're a natural? she is raw talent, listen to 2:59, thats one hard note to pull

[SethWestlake]

I love this song and it's my favourite version of all time.

[annormal]

Damn, I hardly ever saw memory performed so poorly and out of touch. Good voice and all but bad song choice.

[captaincinema]

Why dud she ever let them convince her to dress in this hideous costume?

[TMGpuntNL]

sorry, but this is a bit too much Disney for me

[TMGpuntNL]

well, it is a Celine Tampon production.
What else to expect.

Anyways, i have yet to see something worse than this.

Celine: Titanic for you.