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Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi 1977

"Ça Plane Pour Moi" is a 1977 song by Belgian musician Plastic Bertrand, written by Lou Deprijck and Yvan Lacomblez. It was conceived as a comic pastiche of the punk movement. The song has been covered by many artists, though the original recording was the most successful, reaching number 8 on the UK Singles Chart in mid-1978. The title is a French idiom that is best translated as "this works for me". The song is featured in plenty of films, such as Eurotrip, 127 Hours, and The Wolf of Wall Street. The music is also used in the song "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by Elton Motello.

"Ça Plane Pour Moi" became a hit in several European countries, peaking at number 19 in Austria, number 12 in Sweden, number 11 in Bertrand's native Belgium, number 8 in the UK, number 6 in West Germany, number 4 in Ireland, number 2 in the Netherlands, number 7 in New Zealand and number 2 in Australia. It also topped the Swiss charts for one week and the French charts for two consecutive weeks. The single peaked at number 47 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 58 in Canada.

"Ça Plane Pour Moi" received a total of 77,8% yes votes!

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Abbacadabra 1983

I have already talked about the Starmania Prequel , but Michel Berger is not the only one to have had the idea of ​​creating a musical just for the french television ! On December 21, 1983, Alain and Daniel Boublil staged Abbacadabra, one of the most bizarre projects I have ever seen ? This show was broadcast in nine parts of 5 to 10 minutes during the Christmas holidays (and probably to dilute the bizarreness of the theme) the strangeness is quite simply that all the songs performed are only covers translated into French of the songs of the group ABBA ( which makes this show the first musical of ABBA BEFORE mamma mia !! )

To summarize the story :

On the day of their graduation, four children are put in detention by their principal. They are tasked with tidying up the school library in two hours. Deciding to start with fairy tales, they drop a stack of books, which causes fairy tale heroes ( Alice, Snow White, Cinderella , Aladdin ,Bluebeard , The Little Prince and Pinocchio) to appear one by one. The characters beg the children to free them from the influence of the evil witch Carabosse who has taken control of their world ...

Distribution :

Snow White : Fabienne Thibeault

The Little Prince : Daniel Balavoine

Pinocchio : Plastic Bertrand

Belle : Frida ( Anni-Frid Lyngstad )

Bluebeard / the math teacher : Maurice Barrier

Aladdin : Daniel Boublil

Cinderella : Françoise Pourcel-Boublil

Alice : Catherine Ferry

Carabosse / the principal : Marie-France Roussel

The Children : Stéphane Le Navelan, Stéphane Boublil, Clémentine Autain, Emmanuelle Pailly and Les Poppys as backing singers

Apart from Daniel Balavoine and Fabienne Thibeault, no other artists present here have ever played (and will never play again) in a musical

( I would like to apologize for the quality which is just disastrous )

if you want to see this strangeness in its entirety, the link below is a playlist with all the episodes :

Anecdotes :

the idea of ​​mixing the universe of ABBA and fairy tales started from a simple joke made by the Boublil brothers, they had phonetically translated the title money money money as '' mon nez mon nez mon nez " ( my nose , my nose , my nose) This approximate translation will immediately remind them of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale Pinnochio !

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It was initially the singer Carlos who was to play the role of Aladdin, but for a simple question of time conflict he was replaced by one of the Boublil brothers

To discover more about French musicals (and adaptations around the world of abbacadabra) I invite you to take a look at my Masterlist ;)

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(via Plastic Bertrand - Tout petit la planète (1978)

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Lou Deprijck 1946 - 2023

Lou Deprijck Francis Jean "Lou" Deprijck January 11, 1946 - September 19, 2023

Belgian Music Performer, Producer and Writer Best Known 'Ça Plane pour Moi'

Belgian Composer of Punk Hit ‘Ca Plane pour Moi’ Lou Deprijck Dies - NME 'Ça Plane pour Moi' was covered by both Sonic Youth and the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Belgian Singer of 'Ça Plane pour Moi' Lou Deprijck Dies aged 77 - Brusselstimes

'Ça Plane pour Moi' Singer Lou Deprijck Dies -YahooNewsUK

Lou Deprijck - Wikipedia

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Produced by Lou Deprijck

Recorded: @ The Morgan Studios in Brussels, Belgium during July of 1977

RKM Single Released: in September of 1977

RKM Records (Belgium) CBS Records (Scandinavia)

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The Metro #725

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands to take you back to the 1980s: Cutting Crew, The Cars, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, The Romantics, Slow Children, Bow Wow Wow, Adam & The Ants, Kajagoogoo, Ian Dury, Big Country, Plastic Bertrand, and finishing off with some Tina Turner. Stream The Metro #725. Download The Metro #725.

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Spinning: Plastic Bertrand. Ça Plane Pour Moi. 1977.

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Smash Hits (September, 1978)

Plastic Bertrand / Donna Summer

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Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi

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🇱🇺 Plastic Bertrand - Amour, amour

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Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi

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Sonic Youth - Ca Plane Pour Moi

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Ca Plane Pour Moi

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Ça Plane Pour Moi