Despite this, many of the songs they recorded are the same.
He completely rewrote the English lyrics into an end-of-life boastful valediction, especially for Frank Sinatra, who released his version in 1969.Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan wrote songs that were very different. The rights to Comme d’Habitude were bought by the singer-songwriter Paul Anka after he heard it by chance while staying in Paris. She devoted herself largely to humanitarian work until a comeback performance in a 2015 stage show based on her and her husband’s songs. She retired from recording and performing in 1997, following the death from cystic fibrosis of their eldest child, Pauline. She had another major international hit in 1987 with the album Babacar – including the song Ella, elle l’a, her tribute to Ella Fitzgerald – with music and lyrics by her husband and musical partner Michel Berger, who died in 1992 aged 44. She said later she had been too young to understand the double entendre of the lyrics, and refused either to perform it or to work with Gainsbourg again.ĭespite her success, Gall’s life was marked by tragedy. Gainsbourg later plunged Gall into controversy when she had a massive hit with his sexually suggestive song, Les Sucettes (Lollipops), complete with promotional images of her dressed in a skimpy bikini and licking a lolly. A tribute to her was posted on the Eurovision website, and a tweet from the official Eurovision account expressed sorrow “on behalf of the entire Eurovision family”. In 1965, she won the Eurovision song contest, representing Luxembourg, with the Serge Gainsbourg song Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son – beating the UK’s Kathy Kirby. Gall, born into a musical family in 1947, recorded her first hit, Don’t Be So Stupid, when she was 16. Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images France Gall appearing on French TV in 2012.
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