A double disc comes out on vinyl on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the actress. It brings to light about thirty songs of “the great grasshopper”.
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For the first time, thirty songs by Mireille Darc are brought together in a double disc on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the actress. Mireille Darc had recorded titles composed especially for the “big grasshopper” by Serge Gainsbourg, Pierre Delanoë or Frédéric Botton.
Released on Sunday by Universal Music’s heritage label Pantheon, this double disc, released only on vinyl, brings to light fun and sometimes naughty songs that the actress recorded from 1960, like The Rider and of black flagtitles written and composed by the “man with the head of cabbage”.
Gilbert Bécaud and Jean-Jacques Debout also wrote several songs for Mireille Darc, sex symbol of the pop years and fetish and popular actress of Audiard and Lautner, before becoming in the 90s a committed documentary filmmaker with reference reports on the life in prison or the daily life of prostitutes.
“Mimi, if I had to draw the shape of your universe, I would give it the shape of a heart. If I had to sculpt a woman, it would be you… Your love is my paradise lost”, wrote Alain Delon, whose companion she was for fifteen years, in a message sent to AFP on Saturday on the occasion of the release of the disc.
Mireille Darc died on August 28, 2017 at the age of 79. Affected since childhood by a murmur in the heart, the actress had had open-heart surgery twice in 1980 and 2013. At the end of 2016, she had suffered two cerebral hemorrhages.