Claude François

Family

His/her father, Aime, French originating in Egypt, is Contrôleur traffic on the Suez Canal, during its birth on February 1st, 1939, with Ismaïlia in Egypt.

It carries the first names Claude, Antoine, Marie. It was of tradition at François to call the boys by a first name starting with has, but Chouffa, his/her mother with her character soaked of Italian knew to impose the first name of " Claude" , Antoine was thus allotted in second first name and Marie being the first name of the Virgin to protect the child.

His/her mother, Lucia alias Chouffa , originating in Calabria in Italy, deals with the family hearth.
Brother: none.
Sister: only one (Josette François)
Claude François has also two children, Claude Junior alias Coco , and Marc.

Biography

Its family is expelled of Egypt (with many French and Britannique S) at the time of the Nationalization of the Suez Canal; it arrives with his parents at Marseilles in 1956. The family settles with Monaco then with Nice.
It learns the Piano, the Violon and the battery.
It finds a place of beater in an orchestra of four-bit byte of Jazz to Monte Carlo, place which his/her father will refuse first of all because this one wished that his/her son be accountant (ref.: Clo-clo, the film of its life)
It is at the winter 1960 that it arrives at Paris on the councils of Brigitte Bardot and Sacha Distel with Janet Woolcoot, that it married the November 5th 1960 in Monaco.
Mars 1961: his/her father dies of a disease of the lungs, letting himself die, persuaded that France gave up it.
1962 : the first success with Beautiful beautiful beautiful .
1963 : Claude François asks Michel Bourdais, draftsman with Salut the buddies , to carry out his portrait. He will qualify “marvellous” this drawing hyperealist which became thereafter, very famous.
1964 : Claude François in Olympia
1966: appearance of the Clodettes , its dancers.
1967 : it composes with Jacques Revaux and written with Gilles Thibaut the title As usual , following its rupture with the singer France Gall, who will be adapted in English by Paul Anka ( My Way ) and in particular taken again by Frank Sinatra Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious (but with modifications of the text).
March 13rd 1967: Claude François and Janet Woolcoot divorce. It had left it in spring 1962 for Gilbert Bécaud which it had met with the Olympia.
1967 : it founds its recording company Flèche. It meets Isabelle Forêt which gives rise to Claude Junior the July 8th 1968 and Marc the November 15th 1969. Its song " Because I love you my enfant" is adapted in English and is taken again by Elvis Presley, " My boy".

March 14th, 1970: faintness during a concert with Marseilles Vallier room,
May 17th: car accident on the highway of the south close to Orange, a tire bursts, Claude will be able to make the " thereafter; publicité" of this mark of tire to each interview which followed. Its nose is fractured and the burst knobs. It will have to undergo a Rhinoplastie.

1972 : It founds its newspaper Podium which quickly becomes the largest publication for the young people.

Separation of with the mother of her children. It will meet Sofia, Swedish with which there will remain four years.

1973 : a fan attacks it at the time of a concert.
1975 : he is a collateral victim of an attack of the WILL GO in his Hilton hotel of London. He owes the life with busy which will take the deflagration of full whip.
1977 : he discovers that the rights which were versed to him for the adaptations of My Way , which became a world success, were not calculated correctly. Its file however enables him to obtain win towards the end of the year. June 26th, it is made draw above whereas it is at the wheel of its car, in way towards its Moulin from Dannemois. He escapes death miraculeusement whereas the track race with its attackers lasted during ten kilometers.
Its last title will be Alexandria Alexandra (compound with the autumn 1977). Claude François dies the March 11th 1978, by electrocution in the bathroom, Exelmans boulevard in Paris, whereas it tried to rectify a bracket coppers some which was of through on the wall with the top of the bath-tub. He had, the afternoon (he was already late) to even take part in the emission Rendez-vous of Michel Drucker. A special flash with the radio and on television announces, at 4 p.m., its death.
March 15th 1978: her new 45 turns Alexandria, Alexandra arrives to the record dealers, day of her funerals which took place in the church of Auteuil, with Paris.

It is buried with the cemetery of Dannemois (the Essonne) where its tomb is the object of many visits. He was owner of the mill of the village, now transformed into museum.
the March 11th 2000, a Claude-François place is inaugurated with Paris, Exelmans boulevard in the 16th district, with the foot of its old Parisian residence.
In 2005, a street of Ismaïlia is also baptized in its honor.

Discography of Claude François

The Discographie of Claude François comprises a little more than 400 titles, (nearly 500 songs with the versions in public). It marketed some nearly 400, which shows a will of work out of the commun run. The list of the bond above relates to approximately 380 marketed titles different and an exhaustive statement from the tests and repetition. The foreign Discographie of Claude François comprises titles in English, Italian, Spanish and even in Japanese. It left 278 titles to France and French (because the figures given above include/understand the foreign versions).

It is the sixth larger salesmen of discs in FRANCE behind Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou, Jean Jacques Goldman, Celine Dion and Sheila.

One can deduce from this discography certain elements:

Its lyric writers

Its attachment with its first parolière Vline Buggy, and later with the lyric writers Gilles Thibaut, Eddy Marnay, Jean-Michel Rivat, Michele Vendôme, Yves Dessca (which will become producer of Gloria Gaynor), Jacques Plante, Pierre Delanoë and Didier Barbelivien.

In 1977, it shows its will to give a more pointed direction to its songs by calling upon Etienne Roda-Gil.

Its type-setters

It composes and writes personally only very few songs, but they are an indication of its personal concerns. In the first part of its career, like all the yéyés French singers of the time, it especially will make recoveries which it adapts to the French public, the original English titles being distributed or quite simply directly not yielded to export for adaptation.

If Claude François is often inspired by the Motown, particularly of the type-setter Lamont Dozier, associated to the brothers lyric writer-producers Brian & Eddie Holland, it also calls upon the French type-setters. Thus, it calls upon Patrick Juvet, Alice Dona, Alain Govic (more known under the name of Alain Chamfort) and Jacques Revaux which will compose As usual. But it is especially Jean-Pierre Bourtayre which, taking as a starting point the sources of the Motown, will compose its greater successes to him.

Its meticulousness makes him modify all the partitions and words which are presented to him as for As usual which takes as a starting point its rupture with France Gall. He is the author of the title " Beautiful beautiful belles" , that Vline Buggy in the beginning had entitled " Nothing nothing rien".

For the majority of the songs, 30 seconds a sound extract is available on the site of D. Vallin or on Amazon.

To date (2007), approximately 70 million albums was sold.

Albums

1962 : The nabout twist (its very first song which will be little known in France) but from which it had to change the words because certain passages were in Arabic. One was then in full war of Algeria.
1962 : Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful (it is its first song with success: it becomes a high-speed motorboat)
1962: Go straight
1963: If I had a hammer
1964: Gave, gave
1964: I think of it and then I forget
1965: Even if you returned
1967: As usual (it is the third song most interpreted in the world)
1968: Eloïse
1969: I will await
1969: A world of music
1969: All bursts, all explodes
1969: Claude François in Olympia
1970: The extraordinary world of Claude François
1970: The extraordinary toy
1971: It is the same song
1971: Round be 71
1971: The weather is nice, it makes
1972 good: Y' has the spring which sings
1972: Monday with the sun
1973: I come to dine this evening
1973: Sha the
1973: Popular song
1973: Claude François on scene
1974: Evil liked
1974: The telephone cries (it is its greater success)
1975: You and me against the whole world
1975: Why cry
1975: Summer 75
1975: The unhappy singer
1976: This year
1976: At 17 years
1976: For the young people from 8 to 88 years
1976: The vagrant
1977: I go to Rio
1977: Magniolias for ever
1977: You and the sun
1978: Rosy Bordeaux
1978: Alexandria, Alexandra (it is her last song)
1993: Homages
1996: The extraordinary world of Claude François
1996: In truth
1998: Dance my life (Remix)
1998: New concerts of musicorama
1998: Eloïse - 65/69
1998: Bernadette - 68/75
2003: I will await
2004: As usual

Catalog of films

1977 : Funny of zebras , film of Guy Lux
2004: Podium , film Pastiche on the Double S of Claude

François.

2007 : Funny of cock

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