How many Belgian singers do you know of? And how many of them have had a huge international SMASH HIT record?
I moved to France in 1972, and five years later there was suddenly ONE SONG that one simply heard everywhere. It seemed to be the biggest hit record that France had ever known!
Belgian singer Plastic Bertrand (Roger Francois Jouret) came from nowhere. Suddenly his hit record 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' (Eng: everything's fine) became the rarest of things; a French international pop-music sensation.
France doesn't normally do 'Pop Music', they don't really understand it. They try, but somehow it never quite works. It always sounds a bit as if the musicians and the singer are reading from different song sheets. La Chanson Francaise is much more their style.
Then along comes the Belgian Mr Plastic, with his 5 chord, monotone, song, and the world goes crazy.
It just goes to show; you should never give up hope!
I still love it. It was the pre-teens anthem for my two older children.
Enjoy (if you can!).
