Somehow Appropriate

I’ve been on a bit of an international pop star kick of late, and the recent death of Jules Dassin had me hunting around on YouTube for clips of his son Joe, a massive star in France in the 1970s whose life was cut short in 1980 at the age of 42 thanks to heart attack number five.

Anyway, chances are “Les Champs Elysees” stuck in your head at some point in your life, but this is my kitschy fave of Joe Dassin’s work right now:

Something tells me Freddy Mercury saw this…