Le chanteur Carlos est mort !

[moonraker]

Anyone who has been in France for a few years must have seen him at least once on TV.

[Clair]

I've jut seen the news on FR2 [:(]

I can still remember the words to most of his early songs and it is quite sad that such a cheery person will not cheer us up any more...

[Christine Animal]

Yes, I was surprised and sad to see that today.  He was such a jolly, bon vivant person.   [:(]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-D7Dy_bEZ0

 

[Frenchie]

Did you know he was the son of the very famous child psychiatrist françoise Dolto??

[TWINKLE]

I didn't know that and was also surprised Frenchie!

I met him in July when I did that live telly thingy for the Tour de France, I noticed that he'd lost a lot of weight and just put it down to getting older. 

I was having a drink before the show with Michael Jones who is J. Jaques Goldmans guitarist - also one of the 'chosen few' (Welsh[:)]) and we were slipping from English to French while we were chatting.  Michael Jones was telling me that he was born at his grandmothers golf club in North Wales.  I said "Oh - how funny I was CONCEIVED on a golf course in South Wales".  Carlos who was also sitting at our table started shaking with laughter and I realised that at that point of the conversation I was talking in French!  He later recounted that his doctor had told him that smoking too much could kill you so he'd given up smoking.  Also that too much  s e x  could kill you too so he'd given that up too.  When he told him that drinking too much could also kill you he simply stopped going to the doctors[:D]