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Roman-photos
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Studio album by Alain Bashung
Released 1977
Genre French rock, rockabilly, country
Length33:10
Label Barclay, Universal Music Group
Producer Daniel Darras, Jean-Pierre Pouret
Alain Bashung chronology
Roman-photos
(1977)		 Roulette russe
(1979) Roulette russe1979

Roman-photos(Fotonovelas) is the debut album by French rock musician Alain Bashung, released in 1977 through Barclay Records. The first issues of the album simply bore the artist's name.

Alain Bashung French singer

Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor. In France, he is considered to be one of the most famous singers in French chanson and French rock. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s with hit songs such as "Gaby oh Gaby" and "Vertige de l'amour", and later had a string of hit records from the 1990s onward, such as "Osez Joséphine", "Ma petite entreprise" or "La nuit je mens". He has had an influence on many later French artists, and is the most awarded artist in the Victoires de la Musique history with 12 victoires obtained throughout his career.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1977.

Barclay Records French record label

Barclay Records is a French record company and label founded by Eddie Barclay in 1953.

Contents

Production

Alain Bashung was 30 years old when he recorded this first album, even though his career was already 11 years old, as he had published several singles that were commercial failures.

French singer Daniel Balavoine, who would go on to have enormous commercial success as a pop singer in the 80s, but who was then nearly unknown, sings background vocals on the album. [1]

Daniel Balavoine French singer-songwriter

Daniel Balavoine was a French singer and songwriter. He was hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and inspired many singers in the 1980s, such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Berger, his closest friend, or the Japanese pop-rock group Crystal King; he was also a part of the original cast of the rock opera Starmania in 1978, which was written by Berger. He took part in French political life and is known for a 1980 televised verbal confrontation with then presidential candidate François Mitterrand.

The album was also released as the first side to a joint compilation with Herbert Léonard, titled 16 grands succès (16 golden hits), a rather misleading title given the fact that this album would be a commercial failure.

Herbert Léonard French singer and airplane specialist

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Reception

Commercial performance

The album was a commercial failure when it was first released in 1977. After that, the album was disowned by Bashung and it was not reissued neither on vinyl nor on CD for a while. Only the track "C'est la faute à Dylan" ("It's because of Dylan") would resurface in other ways. The album was finally reissued on CD as part of the box set Les Hauts de Bashung (Bashung's Highs) in 2002.

Bashung said about the album in French magazine Les Inrockuptibles : [2] "J'ai volontairement fait disparaître cet album de mon intégrale, parce que j'estime qu'il ne me ressemble pas du tout. À l'origine, il devait s'intituler « Maquettes » et, avec le recul, il aurait vraiment mérité de rester dans les tiroirs. J'étais simplement satisfait d'avoir pu faire un album, à une époque où c'était encore un privilège réservé aux grands de la chanson, mais je n'avais encore abouti aucune de mes réflexions. J'avais un truc en tête, mais je cherchais encore confusément la manière de le faire. La production discographique n'était pas vraiment prête à investir dans le particularisme et, partant de ce constat, je n'avais pas ma place. Pas encore, en tout cas." ("I voluntarily left this album out my integral, as I think it does not reflect me at all. Originally, it was to be named "Maquettes" (Demos), and after time passed, I really thought it should not have been released. I was just satisfied to have made an album, at a time when only the big names in music could afford the privilege, but I was not through thinking about what I wanted to achieve. I had things in my head, but I was still unsure about how to do it. The producers were not really ready to invest in uncommon things and, starting from there, I didn't have my place. Not yet, at least.")

Les Inrockuptibles is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. In the beginning, rock music was the magazine's primary focus, though every issue included articles on other matters, to which it tends to take a left-wing approach.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Roman-photos" (with Valérie Lagrange)Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung2:43
2."L'amour c'est pas confortable"Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung3:33
3."Blablas"Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung2:59
4."Le Pianiste de l'Éden"Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung3:15
5."C'est la faute à Dylan"Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung3:43
6."Kimono"Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung4:59
7."Te revoir"Daniel Tardieu - Alain Bashung3:44
8."Y'a des jours"Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung3:31
9."Cendrillon de Chinatown"Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung4:43

Singles

Valérie Lagrange French actress, singer and writer

Valérie Lagrange is a French actress and singer. She starred in the 1960 adventure film Morgan, the Pirate.

France Republic with mainland in Europe and numerous oversea territories

France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.3 million. France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.

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References

  1. ↑ "Site consacré à Daniel Balavoine". dbalavoine. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Roman-photos". destination-rock.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.[ dead link ]
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