Where does “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life” by Etienne Daho come from?

A sentence in front of his bed

To return to the history of this cult song, we must go back 1995.

Etienne Daho collaborates with the Saint Etienne groupt has a good melody. But finding words proves more complicated. One day, much later, the singer reads a sentence he had written in front of his bed.

It is : “The first day of the rest of your life”. He draws inspiration from it by telling himself that we can always start again, that nothing is ever finished.