France Gall: Why her victory at the Eurovision contest has broken her relationship with Claude Francois – Gala

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In 1965, the young France Gall won the Eurovision contest, singing Doll of wax, doll of sound. A success that her lover of the time, Claude François lives very badly.

France Gall, who died on Sunday 7 January at the age of 70 years, has experienced the glory of a very young age. One of the successes that help to launch her career in the 1960s, this is his unexpected victory at the Eurovision contest, in march 1965. She was then only 18 years old, and interprets a title that Serge Gainsbourg wrote for her : Doll of wax, doll of sound. From this memorable evening, the singer keeps yet a bitter memory.

At the time, the pretty blonde was having an affair passionate with Claude François. But the latter, blinded by the success, denies that the career of his lovers to make the shadow to his own. So when the young France Gall, stunned by his victory, the telephone to the man she loves from behind-the-scenes of the contest to savour with him, it gave him loose a drama : “thou hast earned, but thou hast lost… “

France Gall has told itself this painful episode during her stint in the show This is your life (France 2), in 2015, but without mentioning the name of her lover. “I was with a boy and I asked what we called this boy when I won. And this boy, just before I went on stage, to go and sing my song, it tells me : “I leave thee”. So I was very in love, I cry. And it pushes me on stage and you can see that I have full of tears, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I won, ” she remembered.

It is, finally, the eyes reddened by tears as a young France Gall pose for the photographers, his medal in hand… everyone interprets her tears as tears of joy. But for her, the evening of march 1965 will forever be an ” absolute tragedy “.

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