(this is a restored post)
More on Sheila and François Ozon from guest-selector Sir Edward (Maks, you paying attention?):
Sheila is one of France music’s industry brightest diamonds, who sold the most records between 1960-2000, bar Johnny Halliday. In 1963, aged 16, she entered the heart of France with L’école est finie, 1966 saw L’heure de la sortie, 1967 saw Sheila acting in her first movie Bang Bang, performing an achingly beatiful violin-driven version of the Sonny Bonno-written
song Bang Bang’(My Baby Shot me down), most famous in Nancy Sinatra’s rendition.
When, in his movie 8 Femmes, Ozon made Ludivine Seigner do a version of Sheila’s song Papa, t’es plus dans le coup, he maybe was returning the favour for using Sheila’s version of Bang Bang to this courting-scene of his acclaimed 1996 shortfilm Une Robe d’été. A film about two gay lovers, one is seduced by a girl, she gives him her dress as a remembrance, and the other one is turned on by his boyfriend in the dress.
Nevertheless, something very suitable to illustrate Sheila’s presumed status as an icon of gay France, aswell as her triumph trough the 70’ies disco-age, having a killer success with Spacer alongside producers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (Chic) and the (not so cool) Black Devotion-band, a song which recently got ripped off for the infamous Cryin’ at the discotheque by Swedish Alcazar. Just as Bang Bang got treated by British Audio Bullys. If ever a fatwa is due.
Sheila - Bang Bang
Sheila & Black Devotion - Spacer
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