Fifty years to the day after his burial, let’s listen again to the curious tributes of his colleagues at La Môme.
Allain Leprest is a little wrong: it is in section 97, and not in section 96 of the Père Lachaise cemetery, that Édith Lamboukas was buried, her married name, born Édith Gassion, known as Édith Piaf , exactly sixty years ago today, October 14, 1963.
And as soon as we talk about Piaf, we invoke the legend – an immense black legend.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:
Allain Leprest, Edith, 1986
Serge Reggiani, Edith, 1972
Micheline Sandrel in, Inter news at 7:15 p.m., October 11, 1963
Nanda, The Sounds of Paris, 1955
The Companions of Song, The Great Lady, 1975 (live version in 1983)
Léo Ferré, To a dead singer, 1967
Claude Nougaro, Like a Piaf, 1977
Léo Ferré, To a dead singer, 1967
Raymond Rouleau in, Inter news at 7:15 p.m., October 11, 1963
Youssoupha, The Crowd – part 2, 2011
Celine Dion, Piaf would sing rock, 1991
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