Alain Delon, his songs and the singers

While an unsavory family affair is spreading in certain media, let’s listen again to what was sung about Alain Delon, and what he himself sang. And it’s instructive…

Excuse me but I am not the first to refer to this duet by Alain Delon with Dalida, recorded fifty-two years ago. And for weeks we have heard violent, cruel, pathetic words spouting out about the present life of an immense actor.

And so we quote a lot Words, words, because Alain Delon does not have, in song, such a profuse work from which we could draw with full force. No, he’s an actor. Not a singer. And we’ve known it for a long time.

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:

Alain Delon and Dalida, Words, words, 1972

Alain Delon, Laetitia, 1966

Alain Delon, The mills of my heart, 1968

Alain Delon and Shirley Bassey, Thought I’d Ring You, 1983

Alain Delon, Like in the movies, 1987

François Valéry, You made me want to be an artist (Delon), 2009

Fred Chicken, A.Delon, 2005

Julien Baer, ​​Alain Delon, 2011

Emma Daumas, In the eyes of Alain Delon, 2022

Alain Delon presents his wishes, 1959

Alain Delon, I love only you, 2019

Alain Delon and Nana Mouskouri, What have my friends become?, 2011

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