For the first time, some thirty songs by Mireille Darc are brought together on a double disc on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the actress, who had recorded titles composed especially for the “great grasshopper” by Serge Gainsbourg, Pierre Delanoe or Frédéric Botton .
Released Sunday on Universal Music’s Pantheon label, this double-disc, released only on vinyl, brings to light fun and sometimes naughty songs the actress has recorded since 1960, such as The horseman Y black flagtitles written and composed by the “cabbage-headed man”.
Committed Documentalist
Gilbert Bécaud and Jean-Jacques Debout also wrote several songs for Mireille Darc, sex symbol of the pop and fetish years and popular actress for Audiard and Lautner, before becoming a committed documentary filmmaker in the 1990s with landmark reporting on the life in prison or the daily life of prostitutes.
“Mimi, if I had to draw the shape of your universe, I would give it the shape of a heart. If I had to sculpt a woman, it would be you… Your love is my lost paradise,” wrote Alain Delon. , with whom she was a partner for fifteen years, in a message sent to AFP on Saturday on the occasion of the album’s release.
Mireille Darc died on August 28, 2017 at the age of 79. Affected since childhood by a heart murmur, the actress had undergone open heart surgery twice in 1980 and 2013. At the end of 2016, she had suffered two brain hemorrhages.
Source: BFM TV
