Three decades later, Claude François – CloClo – remains one of France's biggest-selling recording artists. One of the songs that he co-wrote still rakes in more royalties from abroad than any ...

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 ...

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 ...