French pop singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965France Gall was 17 years old when she won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son, a composition by Serge Gainsbourg in which the singer lamented her plight as a helpless puppet persuaded to sing about matters of love in which she had no experience. By that time Gall, who has died aged 70, was already a star of France’s yé-yé scene, a rival to Sheila, Sylvie Vartan, Françoise Hardy and Chantal Goya, and regularly featured on the covers of such popular magazines as Mademoiselle Age Tendre and Salut les Copains.A pretty face, neat blond hair – sometimes bobbed, sometimes long – and perfectly chosen clothes were among the ingredients that made her a perfect model for France’s teenage girls. She could sing in her baby-doll voice about hating school (in Sacré Charlemagne, her first big hit in 1964, with a lyric by her father) or advise a boy to stop playing the field (in Gainsbourg’s Laisse Tomber les Filles, from the same year) without losing her innocent smile. Continue reading…
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