Sacha Distel has died (for those of us who remember the 1960s and 1970s...

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Britain's favourite French crooner dies in St-Tropez

Jon Henley in Paris
Friday July 23, 2004
The Guardian


Distel: Britain always had a soft spot for him
Photo: PA

Sacha Distel, the quintessential Gallic crooner, died yesterday at the home of his parents-in-law near Saint-Tropez in the south of France, his record company said.
A spokesman for Universal Music France said the singer, France's best-known playboy charmer through most of the 1960s and 70s, died "following a long illness", the standard French euphemism for cancer. He was 71.

In the course of a 45-year international career launched in part by a brief 1958 affair with Brigitte Bardot, Distel performed with some of the biggest names in music, including Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Liza Minnelli, Quincy Jones and Dionne Warwick.

Britain always had a soft spot for him. Distel first hit number one in the UK charts - and stayed there for 34 weeks - with Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head in 1971, after headlining at the London Palladium and Prince of Wales theatre.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1267662,00.html

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Man.

Who am I gonna listen to on Hat FM now?