Many yé-yé hits were covers of US songs with French lyrics ... The American singer Paul Anka recognised the quality of Francois’s “Comme d'habitude” and his recast of it as “My Way” was just one facet ...

Twenty-five years after his death, Claude Francois is still drawing fans to his former home, which has been turned into a museum. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.

There are certain songs I find myself obsessed with—a lifelong fixation that will cause me to attempt tracking down EVERY recorded version of the song.

film profile]). The biopic retraces the life of singer Claude François, who was a star of “chanson française” in the 1960s-1970s and died in a tragic accident in 1978, at the age of 39. Co-written by ...