The game was called "charts" and it went like this. The stairs of an old lower Saxon storage shed were staircases of show. A discarded Gardinenzuzieher served as a microphone. One of girls who gared in front of staircase was Schlager star, ors penis jury. The creaking rose Hinunterzuschweben and at same time as sovereign as possible to sing a song. By heart, is clear. The like by chance marauding neighboring boys and brors poured us with scorn and ridicule.

In memory repertoire it was not only news of ZDF charts of year 1972, such as Juliane's drug ballad "The day when Conny Kramer died" or Mary Roos ' "Only Love Makes us live", but also hits of late sixties. And of which "two oranges in hair" reliably got most laughs in "charts" game. Because imitating voice was so garish and cheeky and text was so crazy. "Two oranges in hair/and at hip bananas/bears Rosita Since today's humid a coconut dress."

"Ella, elle l ' A" is a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

All of this is suddenly back. For France Gall has died, French, who sang German version of "A Banda", a cheerful samba by Chico Buarque, 1968. She died on Sunday in Paris, with cancer, with 70 years. In faded memory she is always young, always sunny, always blissful. And her soprano so metallic and powerful.

Even her or German hit, 1988 Ella Fitzgerald homage "Ella, elle l ' a", a fear-light, elegant Popnummer, has not been able to wipe out picture of delicate blonde girl in short skirt. Although France Gall has long looked like Blondie and transformation of Schlager girl into a self-confident pop and rock singer had long since been completed.

Walter Giller hosts her in a YouTube video of German Schlager competition 1968, in which she gives song "Computer No. 3" to best in Berlin, with words that Americans call m "little French Doll". And he looks little glad of it. As little as France Gall, who was born on October 9th, 1947 in Paris as Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, will later be pleased with her hugely successful French and German chanson and schlager career of Sixties and seventies.

What is in her first hit, she understands only afterwards

Repeated by her far, lyric poet and singer Robert Gall, already with 15 on career track Gehievte singer, that she reluctantly remember this time. It is very much linked to a man who liked pose of frivolous Jugendverderbers and scandal-Chansonniers-with Serge Gainsbourg. He has significantly increased his own fame, in which he staged not only girlfriend Jane Birkin and joint daughter Charlotte, but also France Gall as Lolita.

The song "Poupée de cire, Poupée de son", with which singer 1965 for Luxembourg wins Grand Prix Eurovision de la chanson, comes from him. He also wrote to young innocence title "Les Sucettes" (The Lollipops), which supposedly acts as a sweetened, but is told in subtext of oral traffic. France Gall, who was 18 at time, realizes this only when Gainsbourgs provocation comes up and number stirs up. "I was shocked when I learned true meaning and did not trust me out of house for weeks." Although she knew that Gainsbourg was good for ambiguities. But fact that he and her manager cheers her up is something she just couldn't imagine. A phrase that, in course of today's "MeToo" debate, sheds light on instrumentalization of young women in music industry of time.

France Gall leaves 1966 France and concentrates on German market for a few years. As an interpreter, however, she does not feel really comfortable until mid-1970s when she gets to know composer Michel Berger, her later husband. From this symbiosis come classics of Popchansons like "La déclaration" and "Aime-la". Even in Eighties ir success is unbroken with songs like "Èvidemment". However, after her husband's death, as well as death of a daughter in Nineties, she only occasionally publishes songs. The Knight of French Legion of Honor prefers to be involved – for homeless women.

Date Of Update: 08 January 2018, 12:02