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by: Michel Polnareff

Release Date September 18, 2003
If you don't know MICHEL POLNAREFF and consider yourself a FRENCH pop lover,you are missing something.Even if i think that the early songs are his best,i was glad to get this complete overview of his career.POLNAREFF is a precious melodist and his voice is unlike any other FRENCH singer of his generation;it is so delicate in tone that it gets to you after several listenings.He was as influencal musically as GAINSBOURG was,even if their universe was different and SERGE a more prolific composer.The booklet has all the lyrics of the songs which is nice, but no pictures of MICHEL who in his youth had quite a striking ressemblance to CHOPIN.I like the early stuff so much that i made my own cd with those twenty songs because they did not put them ... Read More: