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I'm gutted
Posted by Beany on 28 July 2010 - 3:03pm.
Musician and songwriter Plastic Bertrand did not sing on his hit single Ca Plane Pour Moi, an expert linguist has told a court in Belgium.
He spent three months comparing the 1977 punk hit to a 2006 cover version by producer Lou Deprijck - and decided it was the same voice on both.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10787037
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
Ca Plane Pour Moi was actually based on this earlier recording by Elton Motello, using some of the same musicians and with more acceptable lyrics.
Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl
I tried to find a version of the song released by Richard Thompson on his 6-CD boxset but could only find this cover version by The Boss Hoss...
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Devastated
I'm going to console myself by listening to something authentic.
Now, where did I put that Boney M LP?
Crickey -
next thing they'll be telling us is that Plastic wasn't his real name.
Famous
Oh Gawd, does that mean he has to be struck off the famous Belgians list?
The Sprouts
Monty Python - Prejudice
Comic Relief Belgians quiz
Probably not on Youtube
Probably not on Youtube, but wasn't Ca Plane Pour Moi one of the many excellent covers that those other famous Belgians, Telex, did?
Still, at least he's still alive
The only other Plastic Bertrand "fact" I knew was that he was supposed to have electrocuted himself by changing a lightbulb while standing in the bath (it had water in it at the time. Empty bathtubs are not electrically lethal kids).
Non!
That would be Claude François
Obviously...
.....he survived, because he's PLASTIC!
Let's not forget...
...the debt owed by significant members of the Word Team to Plastic B - artiste in residence on the very first issue of Smash Hits. Yes, arbiters of popular culture even then... :-D
Apparently Plaz's real name is Roger Jouret - which, given this shocking and stunning revelation about his non involvement in his hit, offers up the fabulous opportunitiy to say - unlike the taste-makers at Smash Hits back in the day - that, as far as Ca Plane Pour Moi goes, the Jouret's out.
Nice.
Though I was secretly hoping for a pun on 'Roger'.
Two other facts about Plastic Bertrand.
1. He represented Luxembourg in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing next to last.
2. Around the same time it was reported that he'd made some recordings with Pope John Paul II.
"he'd made some recordings with Pope John Paul II"
...could that momentous event have been foretold in 1971 on the Lyric's to Jethro Tull's 'My God'? You know the bit - 'the graven image Catholic / With his Plastic crucifix...'
Good old Google
Richard Thompson's version
http://www.mediafire.com/?ynud2ngd2ju
Plastic Bertrand comes clean.
"I'm the victim. I wanted to sing but he wouldn't let me into the studio. This is going to dog me till my dying days. I'm really fed up"
The producer said the case was about honour not money. No sirree...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10801347