Montreal will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the landmark show on Friday Pink magicwhich Diane Dufresne had offered at the Olympic Stadium in front of tens of thousands of spectators.
On August 16, 1984, 55,000 people dressed in pink gathered to see the Quebec diva, who became the one and only Quebec artist to offer a concert of this magnitude at the Stadium.
To mark the 40th anniversary of this event, the Montreal Tower will be illuminated in pink.
Pink magicwhich was produced by the great Guy Latraverse, had a budget of $400,000 and was filmed by ten cameras, including one installed in a helicopter. The direction was provided by Dufresne herself, assisted by Mouffe.
The show was recorded for television and an album, which is still available on online listening platforms.
At the time, the 55,000 spectators present on site had paid $10 for their entry ticket. All of Quebec had been able to see the spectacular result on television at Beautiful Sundayson Radio-Canada, in November of the same year.
“This show is part of the collective imagination of Quebec and we could not ignore this anniversary,” Nicolas Lemieux, president of GSI Musique and producer of Diane Dufresne, stressed in a press release.
“The Olympic Stadium team quickly accepted the proposal and will light up the Montreal Tower in pink to mark the 40th anniversary of this memorable evening.”
In the same press release, Diane Dufresne said she has fond memories of this event “carried by the public.”
“It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in my life; when I entered the stadium and saw that everyone was dressed in pink, there was a kind of magic, a joy in the whole stadium,” she said.
The next day, the media reported on a remarkable spectacle, this “pink flow” which had swept over the Stadium, we could read in The Sun.
“It took all the courage, all the audacity and all the talent of an international star to take on this enormous challenge… and Diane succeeded. Let it be said, let it be finally admitted,” wrote the journalist from The Press Jean Beaunoyer.
The journalist of the Sun Léonce Gaudreault had for his part reported on the atmosphere in the audience: “Unable to feel the diva up close, it was in this magnificent crowd that the best part of the show took place. For many people, where one could touch, kiss. Under the provocative impulse of the diva.”