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Claude Antoine Marie François (French pronunciation: [klod ɑ̃twan maʁi fʁɑ̃swa]; 1 February 1939 – 11 March 1978), also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer.
Mar 11, 2008 · 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...
Mar 11, 2012 · The Clodettes were Claude François’ crack team of scantily-clad dancing girls, as precise and as disciplined as the Bolshoi corps de ballet. And Frédérique was right. To get the full flavour of Claude François you have to watch clips of him singing and dancing.
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The son of a French father and a Calabrian mother, Claude Antoine Marie François was born in Egypt, in the city of Ismaïlia, where his father, Aimé François (1908–1961), was working as a senior manager in the Anglo-French Suez c* company on the Suez C*. In 1951, the job took the family to the city of Port Tewfik (now Suez Port). Claude had an older...
François moved to Paris, where there were many more opportunities to pursue his career. At the time, American rock and roll was taking hold in France and he took a job as part of a singing group to make a living. With the goal of eventually making it as a solo act, he paid the cost to record a 45rpm. Trying to capitalise on the American dance craze...
Although driven to achieve financial success, in 1974 he organised a concert to raise funds for a charity for handicapped children, and the following year he participated in a Paris concert to raise funds for medical research.
In November 1960, he married with Janet Wollacoot. She had left him in 1962, and he was finally divorced from her in 1967. This failed marriage was one of the three big traumas that affected his whole life. The relationship with France Gall ended in July 1967. After this, François had an affair with singer Annie Phillippe, who reportedly refused to...
After working in Switzerland on 9 and 10 March and recording a television special for the BBC on Saturday, 11 March 1978, François returned to his Paris apartment, 46 Boulevard Exelmans, to appear, the next day, on Les Rendez-vous du Dimanchewith TV host Michel Drucker. While taking a bath, he noticed that the light fixture was not straight on the ...
On 11 March 2000, the 22nd anniversary of his death, Place Claude-François in Paris was named in his memory; it is located right in front of the building where he died. The 2003 jukebox musical Belles belles bellesis based on François' songs. A biographical film called Cloclo (My Wayinternationally) was released in March 2012 to coincide with the a...
A woman named Julie Bocquet maintains that François is her father. Fabienne, her mother, was 15 when she got pregnant. Others have recently come forward as well.
Albums
1. 2012: Génération Cloclo 2. 2012: 30 ans – Édition aniversaire(Compilation album)
Singles
1. "Nabout Twist" (Claude François) 2. "Belles! Belles! Belles!" ("Made to Love", Phil Everly/Claude François/Vline Buggy) 3. "Vénus en blue-jeans" ("Venus in Blue Jeans") 4. "Pauvre pe*e fille riche" (Hubert Giraud/Claude François/Vline Buggy) 5. "Si j'avais un marteau" ("If I Had a Hammer", Lee Hays/Pete Seeger/Claude François/Vline Buggy) 6. "J'y pense et puis j'oublie" ("It Comes and Goes", Bill Anderson/Claude François) 7. "Donna Donna" ("Dona, Dona", Sholom Secunda/Claude François/Vline...
English songs
1. "Go Where the Sun Is Brighter" ("Viens à la maison", English lyrics by Norman Newell) 2. "Monday Morning Again" ("Le lundi au soleil", English lyrics by Norman Newell) 3. "Love Will Call the Tune" ("Chanson populaire", English lyrics by Norman Newell) 4. "Hello Happiness" (original song by The Drifters, lyrics by Les Reed and Roger Greenaway) 5. "Tears on the Telephone" ("Le Téléphone Pleure") 6. "I Know" ("Je sais", English lyrics by Norman Newell) 7. "You Are" ("Une chanson française", E...
Claude Francois biographyClaude François discography at DiscogsClaude François at IMDbApr 8, 2012 · François began performing as a percussionist under the name Kôkô - which morphed into Cloclo - and initially hitched himself to the twist bandwagon. But his longevity was ensured by being able to write songs (even though masses of his recordings were covers of US or Brit hits) and dance. Boy, could he dance.
Jun 22, 2012 · Cloclo: Jérémie Renier as blonde dynamo Claude François. Claude François doesn’t have the hipster cachet of Serge Gainsbourg, but he did lead an extraordinary life and died young. He also wrote “ Comme d’habitude ” which was Anglicised to become “My Way”.
With Jérémie Renier, Benoît Magimel, Monica Scattini, Sabrina Seyvecou. A biopic of French pop star Claude François, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
