It was one of the events of this second weekend of March 2023! Thousands of people made the trip to Dannemois (Essonne) for a special reason: to pay tribute to Claude François, 45 years to the day after his disappearance. On March 11, 1978, the singer died electrocuted in his bathtub causing him pulmonary edema. And if all these people, surrounded by those close to the artist, Claude François Jr. at the head, met in this village it is because he spent the last 14/15 years of his existence there. The star had bought a water mill there in 1964. Moreover, to pay homage to the career of Claude François, the town hall of the commune has therefore decided to rename the street bordering his mill in the name of the artist.
Clash by a colleague
On the set of Jordan Luxury on C8Monday March 6, 2023, the singer Laroche Valmont attacked Claude François.
“Claude François had noticed that, without great skill, I had succeeded in setting up magazines and had bought Podium from him; we were competitors and he did it with such talent that, after I put in the depot of balance sheet Tender age and Hello friends, he was really very strong”he revealed. “He was always fierce in every way; he had the niaque, he was a little nervous both in terms of competing singers and his private life”.
He took advantage of this passage to talk about this “filth” made to Patrick Juvet: “In 72, he contacted Juvet who was going to do what became Monday in the sun. Claude François asked him if he could sing this song, Juvet refused, but he managed to put pressure through the record company, which meant that Patrick ended up accepting […] He summons Patrick Juvet, Patrick arrives and we ask him to start singing, he sings and we take him back. Claude François was on the top floor, he heard the song, he didn’t even come down to say thank you or tell him that it was good, Patrick had a lot of trouble getting over it”.
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