Georges Brassens - Fernande
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
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Carla Bruni (live) - Fernande (Original: Georges Brassens)
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
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No Bull!
The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
You want to know what is really controversial at the moment in France? The Tour de France and its usual dopage (doping) problems? The recent changes in the French constitution? Nope! It’s an Austrian/Thai energy drink called Red Bull that France was denied the right to ban by Brussels, the European authorities! Why did we [...]
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Georges Brassens in the park
Earning My Turns (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In her photo series about a public park , my sister Isabel recalled of one of those beautifully wry, timeless Brassens songs: Quand les mois auront passé Quand seront apaisés Leurs beaux rêves flambants Quand leur ciel se couvrira de gros nuages lourds Ils s'apercevront émus Qu' c'est au hasard des rues Sur un d'ces fameux bancs (Via aguarelas de Turner .)
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Between The Sheets / Between The Lines
Notes From Hallett's Mountain (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
“What's that you are reading then'” For the third time in ten minutes my eye is dragged from the words, and once again I know that I shall probably start all over at the top of the page. She Of The Townhouse has an impish gleam in her eye. “It is a tale about a chap whose girlfriend wouldn't get up and make a cup of tea on Sunday morning!” “Oooh! Romance or murder mystery'” Darkly. “I can't say for...
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EDW: Carla Bruni
A Foolish Interruption (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
A poll this week shows the French are starting to warm to their first lady, with 90 per cent approving of her performance. And, as this clip shows, even if she can't sing, she certainly knows how to perform. However, rather than worrying about what she wore to meet the queen, and whether or not she can behave herself in the company of Prince Philip, I'd like to suggest that this performance - a song...
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Paris The World's Most Fashion City
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
The world's fashion Mecca, Paris has been dressing kings, artisans and the upper class since the reign of Louis XIV.
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Georges Brassens - Le Gorille
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
“Le Gorille,” was Georges Brassens’ first single. It was released at the end of 1952. It caused controversy and was banned from French radio until 1955. Some attribute this to its strong anti-death penalty stance, but it was probably more the detail of Brassens’ scandalous tale, which some found, not without reason, pornographic. The video [...]
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Franz Josef Degenhardt - Junge Paare auf Bänken (Georges Brassens)
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
. Learned and versatile, German poet, novelist, folksinger, and noted attorney Franz Josef Degenhardt was born December 3, 1931. He began releasing records in the early '60s and hasn't let up, with some 50 album titles in his personal discography, the most recent appearing in 2006. Degenhardt is also an accomplished novelist, with a half dozen largely autobiographical novels to his name. Here is an...
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EDW: Georges Brassens
A Foolish Interruption (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
It takes a certain something to carry off a moustache, especially when one is sweating profusely. But Georges Brassens manages it superbly. Chapeau, monsieur. (PS: light posting at the moment. I'm busy, moving house and don't have much internet time.)
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Daft Punk fume une pipe
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Forget the girls and the sighing for a few minutes. Think about Georges Brassens. Then think of Daft Punk. Now, try 'n mix the two. You think that's impossible? Ofcourse not. La Pompe Moderne, a group of humourists from France, pay tribute to both Brassens (they used to call themselves the Brassens, but for reasons that are beyond my understanding of French, they changed it, see the explanation on...
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Jake Thackray: On again
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 11/18/2007
This Sunday's video celebrates the late, great Jake Thackray. As my readers are so young these days, I had better introduce him with his extract from the biography on a website devoted to him: Jake Thackray was a singer-songwriter in the French tradition, a "chansonnier" whose songs are nevertheless convincingly and idiosyncratically English. This is scarcely surprising. After graduating from Durham...
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Everyone’s A Critic: Odds and Sods
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/28/2007
Doesn't everybody love The Who?Like the title says, here’s a loose affiliation of stuff that's been rumbling around in my noggin over the last few days: You never call, you never write. Well, Obscure Comics Month was a complete failure. I’m not terribly surprised to be honest, nor am I all that upset. I couldn't even [...]
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Georges Brassens in Cardiff
Babylon Wales (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
Unless (like me) you are a fan of the French chanson tradition you are unlikely to have heard of Georges Brassens . Yet in France he is an absolute icon. During his lifetime he was more popular than greats like Boris Vian and Léo Ferré ; as esteemed as Jacques Brel ; and held in as much affection as Edith Piaf. His moustachioed face was as familiar to the French public as Elvis Presley's was to the...
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Georges Brassens - La Non-Demande en Marriage
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 09/23/2007
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