Monaco. Are there three more syllables that you so love to hear? In Eurovision terms anyway. Well, we know the Mediterranean principality has a love/hate relationship with the contest. They were once there every year without fail. Maybe occasionally even with a native performer. And then the rascals only went and won in 1971. They never hosted, as the EBU wouldn’t agree to a contest outside. I personally think that would have been a great idea. But Monte-Carlo’s loss was Edinburgh’s gain. Anyway, to find a Monégasque song mainly means delving back before 1979, perhaps before some of you were even born. Today’s birthday girl Françoise Hardy is Parisian, but you’d never know. Françoise is 72 today.
Bon anniversaire, Françoise!