Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, RIP

[vinteuil]

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Charles Aznavour...

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/10/01/03004-20181001ARTFIG00151-mort-de-charles-aznavour-apres-une-longue-et-belle-vie-de-boheme.php

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour

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[Stanfordian]

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Charles Aznavour...

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/10/01/03004-20181001ARTFIG00151-mort-de-charles-aznavour-apres-une-longue-et-belle-vie-de-boheme.php

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour

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I was taken to one of Aznavour's concerts as a young teenager. It's a shame I wasn't then able to appreciate his considerable talents.

R.I.P.

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah yes, the man with the quaver in his voice, and probably a few in the scores of his songs. He would never have got away with it other than in the French language, though, would he? (Q.v. one Bowie ).

[vinteuil]

Ah yes, the man with the quaver in his voice....

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxaZMreym88

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[eighthobstruction]

....wiki says She was 14 weeks at Number One in charts....I think not....but anyway

[DracoM]

I was taken to one of Aznavour's concerts as a young teenager. It's a shame I wasn't then able to appreciate his considerable talents.

R.I.P.

[Serial_Apologist]

....wiki says She was 14 weeks at Number One in charts....I think not....but anyway

That became the near-forgotten song from the film "Notting Hill", pre-Grenfell.

There were lots of French artists with chrismal back then... or artistes: Catherine Deneuve, Aznavour, Michel Piccoli... or was he Italian? I was very taken with that brand of French bourgeois taste, back in that pre-Marxisante era. Then I decanted.

[Barbirollians]

Like Sacha Distel he seemed to be a stalwart of mid 1970s light entertainment . Cruelly called Charles Aznovoice by some at the time as I remember it ( or maybe that was just my Dad who is not a fan )

Apparently, he had not long returned from a tour of Japan .

RIP CA.

[LMcD]

....wiki says She was 14 weeks at Number One in charts....I think not....but anyway

According to the Officlal Charts Company, it was in the charts for 14 weeks, 4 of them at Number 1.

[eighthobstruction]

According to the Officlal Charts Company, it was in the charts for 14 weeks, 4 of them at Number 1.

....aah that's more like it....

[cloughie]

One of those singers ever present throughout my life - a great contribution to music. RIP CA. For the record I thought that Elvis Costello murdered ‘She’.