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1783: A young French nobleman demonstrates the first successful steamboat on the River Saône at Lyon. Fame and fortune would elude the inventor. Claude-François-Dorothée de Jouffroy, the Marquis d'Abbans, was serving in the infantry in 1772 when multiple infractions of military discipline sent him to the prison near Cannes. While watching convicts rowing galleys there, he began speculating on how...
If this clip of Jodie Foster performing Serge Gainsbourg's "Comic Strip" in a rope swing with Claude François on French TV doesn't cheer you up at least a little, I really don't know what to suggest....
Seeing as I've written about
death
and
vengeance
in the last week, I thought I should perhaps lighten up a bit.
So, with many thanks to The Wife for sending it to me, I present
Claude François
's song, 'Belle, Belle, Belle'.
It's a
lovely
tune. Really. I like this kind of thing.
But the
really
fun bit begins about 40 seconds in, when Mr. François is overcome by the urge to dance.
Or, it...
Another pseudo exotic found from the flea market, the very first 45rpm record from the most famous french singer from Belgium! regretted Claude Francois under the alias of KôKô (koko), the record was a flop when it came out in 1961. So what ?!! Nobody enjoyed the oriental twist in the 60s, le nabout as he called it, now listen to Ali Baba Twist (originally written by Bob Azzam another great oriental...
....infectious nonsense? Or just nonsense? On any list of the things I miss about France, karaoke would come a long way down. Not because French pop music is all as bad as one singer, Benjamin Biolay, told me it was...
Link # submitted by on Apr 18, 2008 06:26pm. (+100XP)Thirty years ago, a short, bleach-blond, 39-year-old man with bow legs stood up in his bath in his Paris apartment and tried to fix a light bulb. Thus ended the life of Claude François, France's second most successful pop singer of the 1960s and 1970s.: 0 Hits: 1 Points: 163703 Vote Now! [
Filed under: Twisted Tales Spinner.com : The French are the Rodney Dangerfield of nationalities: They don't get no respect, at least from Americans. Politically, they're the butt of endless jokes and insinuations. Musically, it's even worse: French pop is invariably dismissed as pathetic... Read more
At the moment, the French tv is talking about the 30 year death anniversary of Claude François. So I thought it was the occasion to make a tribute to his foxy dancers called the "clodettes". When I was young I was so fascinated by their outfits... you can easily guess why... :) Ne vous méprenez pas... Je ne suis pas une de ses fans qui le pleure encore aujourd'hui mais puisque Claude François est d'actualité...
On the evening of Saturday March 11th 1978, while standing in a filled bathtub, 39 year old Claude François noticed a broken light bulb. His well-documented obsession with cleanliness and order got the better of him, prompting him to try and fix it. He was accidentally electrocuted. That really is a stupid way to die. This though, was the official version of the death of Claude François. So impluasible...
Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of Claude François (Cloclo to his fans). Born in 1939, obsessive, perfectionist, womanizer and disco king. Had two sons - kept the second one secret for a long time so as not to spoil his image. Has a square named after him in the 16th district of Paris. Today, his fans are mourning and laying flowers by his statue in the graveyard in Dannemois, near Paris...
Thirty years ago today, Claude François was taking an afternoon bath at his home outside Paris to wash off suntan oil. Standing in the water, he tried to straighten a metal light fixture and the electric shock killed him. Cloclo,...
Thirty years ago today, a short, bleach-blond, 39-year-old man with bow legs stood up in his bath in his Paris apartment and tried to fix a light bulb. Thus ended the life of Claude François, France's second most successful pop singer of the 1960s and 1970s.
Thirty years ago, Claude François passed away. He lead an extraordinary life , wrote many beautiful songs, started a label and a model agency and nearly was killed by the IRA. He died from electrocution in his bathtub. No kidding. Claude is best known for composing Comme d'Habitude, translated by Paul Anka into My Way. Over 1500 versions of My Way were recorded - the best (and played to death, imho)...
